Archive for November, 2004

More coding peeves…

David Intersimone posted about coding peeves, asking people to submit their own. Here’s mine: implicit dependencies. The most common kind of implicit dependency is the ‘magic number’. Different parts of a program share the same assumptions on a piece of data. The problem is not limited integers or other primitive datatypes; any conventions on the […]

Posted by Anders Ivner archive on November 29th, 2004 under Uncategorized | 6 Comments »

Re: Domain Specific Languages and OCL

I’ve been following what’s being written about Software Factories and Domain Specific Languages with some curiosity. A recent post by Alan Cameron Wills highlights one of my concerns, and gives me reason to react. My problem is the notion of "Domain Specific". He writes, regarding OCL (and ASL), "they’re general-purpose, and so it’s inevitable that […]

Posted by Anders Ivner archive on November 17th, 2004 under Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

More ECO 2 internals…

This time I’m going to dig deep into one of the core components of ECO - the cache. If you’re wondering what ECO is, or have just gotten started with it I suggest you first read some of the tutorials available, or, even better, try it out. But if you’ve read my previous post, and […]

Posted by Anders Ivner archive on November 8th, 2004 under Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

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