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Is premature optimization really the root of all evil?
Oct 27, 2013
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Is it okay to make coding style changes on an open source project that doesn't follow best practices?
Feb 2, 2014
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When writing object-oriented code, should I always be following a design pattern?
Oct 2, 2014
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What's the difference in content between Chris Okasaki's 1996 thesis and 1999 book, Purely Functional Data Structures?
Jan 31, 2013
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Does functional programming ignore the benefits gained from the "On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules" (data hiding)?
Oct 5, 2013
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Do Design Patterns Stifle Creativity
Mar 18, 2014
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In functional programming, are local mutable variables with no side effects still considered "bad practice"?
Apr 25, 2013
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When does "proper" programming no longer matter?
Nov 21, 2012
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Why does Scala have return but not break and continue
Oct 15, 2014
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Dealing with a large pull request
Apr 8, 2014
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Why didn't Gandalf know what the Palantir was?
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Capture the notion of invertible functions
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Would it be possible for an Earth-sized world to speak a single language?
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To understand what recursion is, you must first understand recursion
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UPenn Homework 3: skips function