https://www.hillelwayne.com/tags/responses/ Recent content in Responses on Hillel Wayne Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Fri, 09 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/thinking-the-unthinkable/ Fri, 09 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/thinking-the-unthinkable/ I recently read Tomas Petricek’s Thinking the Unthinkable, where he argues that modern PLT makes several restrictive assumptions about the nature of programming. Our reliance on mathematics in CS is not fundamental and our obsession with formal logic and algorithms keeps us from seeing other possible paradigms. He proposes two other unthinkable paradigms that are unrelatable to modern mathematical programming. I disagree with his premises: I think there’s a very valid reason to ground aspects of programming in mathematics. https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/why-tdd-isnt-crap/ Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/why-tdd-isnt-crap/ After my recent vitriol about unit testing, a couple of people sent me Why TDD is Crap as a thorough debunking of TDD and unit testing. As someone very interested in software correctness, I ended up writing a debunking of his debunking. Transcriptions will be in quotes, my responses below. Some important notes: From what can tell, neither of us is using TDD in the “purest” possible sense of “write the bare minimum that makes the smallest unit test pass”.