Great programmers don't just happen !
The last decade has seen object oriented programming (OOP) dominate the programming world. While there is no doubt that there are benefits of OOP, some programmers question whether OOP has been over rated and ponder whether alternate styles of coding are worth pursuing. To even suggest that OOP has in some way failed to produce the quality software we all
Read moreBasic ! Oh, how foolish one must be to use such an old fashioned language, right ? Wrong ! It is time to put to rest the idea that Basic is old fashioned, obsolete and a dead programming language. Not your fathers Basic. Basic has come a long way since the days of GW-Basic or QBasic. It has changed. It
Read moreAs a programmer one of the things that I come across which is rarely appreciated is that planned obsolescence of software is forced by the development tools one uses and that few appreciate the value of designing software in ways which allow people to use existing computer hardware longer. As I type this article, I am doing so on an
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