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The example is strange and contrived. I couldn't torture the logic enough to demonstrate how readability breaks down with exceptions. Reading through the comments, I realise that e…

Author here. Thank you for the link to Midori's error model. It's on my reading list for this week. > So we should keep the door open, and not pretend we have already solved errors…

Yes, this. Parse all input at the application boundaries and reject invalid input. For division by zero, the code path that leads to that should encode the input as a number greate…

I agree with you. With OpenAPI you can be more specific about what your API does. You can add examples and refer to the output of an API call (useful if you need to point out relat…

I used OpenAPI exclusively on my previous job. But it was only me, the back-end developer. My colleagues appreciated the documentation. But when it was time for me to leave, the te…

When I gave this book an attempt, I appreciated the author's honesty about the difficulty of the material. I went with Real World Ocaml instead, intending to reattempt SoFP in the …

"Dating or not, these are vital in life." I don't mean to be pedantic, but, without the comma, I read it wrong twice. I agree with you totally. I'm currently looking for a course I…

This is amazing. Is it like MapReduce, but for virus replication and transmission?

That's quite like my experience. I started out with Emacs, but I learned Vim along the way and the key bindings are awesome. I use them in other editors, but often they conflict wi…

I sincerely hope you find something that works. It is a good pursuit. Will it be limited to learning programming only? There are many other skills that will be needed after such cr…