Nice list. Sensible. I especially like the pragmatic instead of dogmatic approach to unit testing. Laughed at #5. Cried at #13 (Windows Phone) – though deep down I know you’re right! As for #14 – no idea what it means, but looks like a good topic for more reading.
#5 – Objective C – I remember that at University, it was more painful than having my wisdom teeth taken out… That syntax is rather bizarre and more suited to a class creator meta-tool than an actual programming language.
Think 10 needs to go now with the async keyword! Life is too short not to use it 🙂
Hey Ross,
with async is better but I’m an old-fashioned guy and regret the old good times of plain sync code 😀
Nice list. Sensible. I especially like the pragmatic instead of dogmatic approach to unit testing. Laughed at #5. Cried at #13 (Windows Phone) – though deep down I know you’re right! As for #14 – no idea what it means, but looks like a good topic for more reading.
#5 – Objective C – I remember that at University, it was more painful than having my wisdom teeth taken out… That syntax is rather bizarre and more suited to a class creator meta-tool than an actual programming language.