"“Effective C++” is, in essence, a book quite similar to Robert L. Glass’ “Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering”: a series of very specific guidelines, stating clearly what to do (and most importantly, what not to do) in various situations and conundrums. In this case, regarding the essence of C++."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/scott-meyers/
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"Hang tight:
auto a = make_unique();
Boom. The code above, compatible with C++14 and later, is type-safe, bounds-safe, initialization-safe, and lifetime-safe by default."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/herb-sutter/
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"As mentioned by Fireship in a recent video, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is proposing to use a program called TRACTOR to translate C and C++ code into Rust using AI and LLMs. Excellent idea. Let us trust our defense to an LLM. What could possibly go wrong?"
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/twin-leaks-cpp-walk-with-me/
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The 77th edition of De Programmatica Ipsum is out!
This month, we take the risqué choice of comparing the work of Bjarne Stroustrup to that of the late film director David Lynch; in the Library section, we review “Effective C++” by Scott Meyers; and in our Vidéothèque section, we learn about programming language safety from Herb Sutter.
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/issue-77-cpp/
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"Where will the von Neumanns, the Einsteins, and the Gödels of our age migrate after the SCOTUS overrules democracy in 2024 and Gödel’s Loophole is proven to exist? At this time, the two major powers of our time, the United States and China seem unlikely locations for brains to settle and grow in the long term. Maybe this is the chance of a lifetime for the European continent."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/william-aspray/
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"If you do not believe me, ask the poor producer at the BBC who ran a short-lived and interactive chess program on national British TV. Yes, interactive: people in the audience could call live 0898 99-11-99 and suggest the next move against a grandmaster in the studio. When I say it was short-lived, I mean it: it aired just once, on December 7th, 1990."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/bartek-spitza/
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The 76th edition of De Programmatica Ipsum is out!
This month, we explore the role of humans in a world where computers are undeniably better at chess than us; in the Library section, we review “How Computers Play Chess” by David Levy and Monty Newborn; and in our Vidéothèque section, we learn from Bartek Spitza how to create a chess engine.
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/issue-76-chess/
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"On June 25th, 1999, Brian Foote published a seminal article that became, for a short while, one of the most commented pages of the early Internet, at least by struggling software developers and prospective architects. Such was the impact that it “was twice featured in Slashdot” (kids: that is the 1999 equivalent of “this article hit the homepage of Hacker News”). 25 years after that publication, one question still lingers: when are we going to accept defeat?"
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/goodness-gracious-great-balls-of-mud/
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"Kate Moussouris is also a Microsoft alumna. It’s time to revise any opinion you have that Microsoft is not an innovative software engineering house. She has advanced the way that organisations including Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Defense interact with external security researchers and testers."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/on-modern-security-culture/
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"Microsoft’s tempestuous relationship with open source perhaps plays no little part in stoking the anti-Microsoft sentiment among nerds. The famous collection of Halloween Documents curated by Eric S. Raymond show a company first trying to understand, then come to terms with, then compete with, then undermine, not so much another product but another way of thinking about ownership completely at odds with the Microsoft way and “most of you steal your software”."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/putting-the-dollar-sign-in-microsoft/
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Looking for suggestions about books to read in 2025 in the fields of programming, computer science, and software history? We can help. Check out our Library section for quite a few classics. And there's more coming every month!
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/category/library/
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"Booch’s method is very similar to many other contemporary methods of object-oriented design. In Designing Object-Oriented Software, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and coauthors describe a comparable design method with comparable benefits and drawbacks."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/the-three-amigos-among-others/
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"But things are not going well. TimBL has regrets. Jake Archibald is swearing. Brian LeRoux is sad. PPK does not know whether to teach Flexbox or Grid CSS first. MIT is withdrawing from the W3C; Safari (or Chrome?) risks becoming the new Internet Explorer; the Google Gruyere app shows that security was always an afterthought. In the meantime, ChatGPT is creating a new HTML standard element for music, and developers are still unsure which HTTP headers are case-sensitive."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/from-hypertext-to-spas-to-hypertext/
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"It is hard to make a living in the software industry without crossing the path of a software developer dreaming of becoming independent. Imagine the bliss: no more bosses, no more timesheets, just you and your favorite programming language, day in, day out. Let us be honest: we all dream of building the SaaS or the mobile app of our dreams and living out of its monthly recurring income."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/when-you-cant-create-you-can-work/
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We just hit the threshold of 400 followers! We're thrilled and very proud to have you around, reading, commenting, and supporting our work. All the best to all of you for 2025! 💙🎉🎊🙌🏻🍕
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"What has happened is not that we have become disengaged with computers. What has happened is that most of us with a computer do not care about it as a computer. Owning a Commodore 64 is no longer a badge of membership in the hobbyist computer club."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/zx2020/
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"Everything changed in 1998. That is when Christine Peterson coined the phrase “Open Source,” deliberately masking the business-unfriendly moniker of “Free Software” which Wall Street abhored so much."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/open-always-wins/
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"Google used to stand for bigger things. The Google TechTalks series were one of those things that inspired a whole generation of young engineers to work at a company that openly claimed not to be evil."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/google-techtalks/
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"Not only that, but as this article hits the web, the 46-year-old Voyager 2 probe, at 20-something billion kilometers from Earth, just received a much hyped software patch. Meanwhile, some of us Earthlings have to reboot our computer twice just to print a document. Whatever."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/rocket-science/
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"While “grooming the backlog” may seem like an elaborate ritual in which a Tudor monarch has their turds cleaned, it is in fact…well, it is that, without the monarch."
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