Achieving readability and expressiveness by writing English-like code is one of the trends on the rise in today’s industry. Michael Feathers advocates for considering other alternatives that can be instrumental for improving code expressiveness. He argues that in some circumstances symbolic approach is more appropriate than the narrative one and highlights some trades-offs between them.
Often the necessity to rapidly adapt software projects to new clients’ needs results in adopting approaches focused on productivity. Reasons, implications and limitations of this were recently discussed in the blog sphere.
Even the most successful project becomes a failure when a new technology comes out and everything has to be rewritten from the ground. This is why business logic has to be separated from technology. And, according to Kathleen Dollard, code generation is a promising approach to achieve it.
Valtech hosts the 3rd edition of the Valtech Days : a 2 days conference in Paris-La Défense in October 23 & 24.
On the first day, various technical talks (24 sessions about Agile, Industrialisation & Software Factories, Frameworks & Architecture)Among others: DSLs & Language Oriented Programming, Agile Contracts, Test Driven Requirements,… [Full Program (French)]
On the second day [...]
Depuis quelques temps, je tombe fréquemment sur des articles au sujet des DSL de Microsoft. Je me demande: « pourquoi un autre langage de modélisation ? UML ne remplit-il pas déjà cette fonction ? Et quand bien même, non seulement je ne crois pas en une modélisation front-end (une modélisation exhaustive en début de projet), lire la suite sur le blog de Julien Delhomme…
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