Defense against the dark arts - fighting against magic in programming, hidden complexity and obscurity
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A talk about code complexity, code obscurity, magic in code, and a few more nefarious practices that one may encounter. We will also be discussing about dealing with these problems, management of technical knowledge and coding elegance.
Defense against the dark arts - fighting against magic in programming, hidden complexity and obscurity
- 2. Defense against the dark arts How to fight black magic and other nefarious practices
- 4. Arthur C. Clarke Any sufficiently advanced code is indistinguishable from magic. Or something to that effect.
- 7. Or this little gem
- 8. Ok, big gem
- 10. Sample code
- 11. How do you call this and why?
- 12. Why is this bad?
- 13. The magic community frowns on your shenanigans
- 14. What is magical thinking?
- 15. Paradigm opacity
- 25. Design patterns
- 26. Design patterns
- 28. To wrap it up
- 29. Magic is a part of our lives
- 30. Manage it, dont pretend it doesnt exist
- 31. Educate yourself
- 32. Educate others
- 33. Hang around the wizards
- 34. Q & A
- 35. Fill the feedback form
- 36. May you grow a long beard