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Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?
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Re: Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?
#22I learned a lot from the Cocotron source:
https://code.google.com/p/cocotron/source/browse
It's a free cross-platform implementation of Apple's Cocoa, so there's a lot of stuff there. But the project is well organized, and almost everything is written in a minimalist oldschool Objective-C style.
I've looked at some other cross-platform frameworks, and they are often hard to understand because they have been developed by a large group of developers and include lots of complex optimizations and platform-specific code paths. Cocotron is not as finely tuned as Apple's CoreFoundation (for example), but much more readable.
Re: Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?
#23== Vim or Emacs == Just pick one and force yourself to use it to the exclusion of other editors. Future you will thank you later, because you'll still be using it 20 years from now. "We are typists first, programmers second" comes to mind. You need to be able to move chunks of code around, substitute things with regexes, use marks, use editor macros, etc. == 6.824: Distributed Systems == http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.8…
How long does it usually take to get a reply from Matasano. I have sent a mail couple of days ago, but no reply yet.
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(You say the 'naive' way; how can it be compressed better?)
Re: Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?
#25C -> Varnish PHP -> Yii Ruby -> Merb Scheme -> Arc Clojure -> Core JavaScript -> Multeor Any languages in particular that you're interested in not covered above?
Thanks for this list. I was mostly looking for Python, Javascript, Haskell and C#. Any help regarding that? Also, as I believe this thread will also help others, you can go ahead and post about any other code-bases for other languages.
Modules within the Python standard library are very well written. The source code also provides very good examples of decent unit tests.
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#26The sources to Lua are pretty darn great:
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#27I had a read through the PCSX2 emulator recently, that was quite interesting: https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2 it's a complex project in what was surprisingly readable C++ code.
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#28I made this tool: http://codingstyleguide.com to improve the way I code for different languages and not get lost with too much programming information and it's helping me a lot.
Re: Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?
#29== Vim or Emacs == Just pick one and force yourself to use it to the exclusion of other editors. Future you will thank you later, because you'll still be using it 20 years from now. "We are typists first, programmers second" comes to mind. You need to be able to move chunks of code around, substitute things with regexes, use marks, use editor macros, etc. == 6.824: Distributed Systems == http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.8…
>Do not identify yourself as "an X programmer," or as anything else.
Yet every single programming job post these days is basically looking for someone with X years of experience in a long enumeration of specific technologies. The usual reason being "They need to be productive. Now."
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#30Eric S. Raymond wrote a book The Art of Unix Programming [1] that has many "case studies" as well as recommendations of which software/RFCs are particularly worthy of study.