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In practice, type inference for return types works fine for the work I do (iOS development). Initializers are blindingly obvious anyway, and other functions are often members of an object or a struct. There are barely any bare functions.
Can’t members return other objects?
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Our contemporary corporate and social culture doesn't encourage or reward discipline. We produce mostly throwaway stuff that has to be released as soon as possible on the market, or else the company goes out of business. The incentives for craftsmanship and diligence are just not there.
Sadly, you are correct, but that’s not new. This has been the case throughout history. I was just thinking about the difference between “good,” and “excellent.” If we look at the difference between a Henkels kitchen knife, and a Japanese Takayuki knife, we are talking exponentially divergent costs. The Takayuki is definitely a lot better than the Henkels, but is it twenty times as good, as the price difference might…
One of the most important reasons why we write programs, is because computers are slow and have limited memory. Computers only appear fast due to a host of tricks. The most important trick is the memory pyramid: with at the top a small number of very fast accessible memory (think CPU registers) and at the bottom a very fast but many orders of slower accessible memory (think the whole of the internet). And a lot of bu…
What makes a double-linked list better?