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Code which every programmer must read before dying
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Re: Code which every programmer must read before dying
#22When I downloaded mongrel2 I wanted to take a quick peak at superpoll beyond what was in the blog post about it, an hour later I was still reading the source. It is some of the best-written C I've seen.
Re: Code which every programmer must read before dying
#23Literate programming is the style of programming that's intended to be read: http://www.literateprogramming.com/ Quite the contrast with the Bourne Shell: "Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help." – Tom Duff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_shell#Quotes
Speaking of Tom Duff, his Device is well worth studying.
[edit] michaelcampbell has already recommended it below - missed that.
Re: Code which every programmer must read before dying
#24Based on a blog post that made the rounds a while ago -- http://tomayko.com/writings/unicorn-is-unix -- Unicorn might be a good read for Ruby-related stuff.
Re: Code which every programmer must read before dying
#25I think a very good example of when OOP is genuinely useful and desirable is the Twisted Networking Engine: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/trunk/twisted
This is very unpythonic example of coding. bullshit
Re: Code which every programmer must read before dying
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Crikey, that's like recommending the Bourne Shell (which was a bunch of macros so you could write ALGOL-like code in C)! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_shell#Quotes twisted is, well, twisted. And that's what it does to your head too.
Just to clarify, I'm not talking about event-driven programming, errbacks and callbacks, but rather how they've done all of the abstraction of the different protocols and subsystems. It's one of the few times where I've considered inheritance absolutely essential.
Still sceptical.
Pretty much every other reactor system is cleaner and easier.
I fight twisted every day and rue the day I picked it for a big project.
Re: Code which every programmer must read before dying
#27I was fairly impressed with the PostgreSQL sources when I was poking through them once.
Re: Code which every programmer must read before dying
#28Hello world in machine code for any platform.
Re: Code which every programmer must read before dying
#29It's been awhile since I studied it, but I recall the Python (C) source code being very readable.
Re: Code which every programmer must read before dying
#30Most of the code written by _whyfan is pretty awesome in my book.