Episode 34: Don't Make the Garbage in the First Place - a podcast by Phil Nash & Jon Kalb
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Recorded July 7th, 2018
This week our main topic is Simplicity and we're joined by Kate Gregory, who will be keynoting CppCon on the subject, and Jonathan Boccara, whose blog is often focused on pursuing simplicity, too.
We cover how to deal with complexity in legacy code, e.g. a report function containing thousands of lines of switch statement (and a 27 step process to add a new report), what simple code looks like to begin with, techniques that help - including functional programming and TDD, and some of the limitations of all these approaches.
Guests:
Topic Links:
- Jonathan's Blog, Fluent{C++}
- Kate's ACCU talk on Simplicity
- One of Phil's talk's on Simplicity
- One of Phil's talks on Functional Programming
Other Links:
Further episodes of cpp.chat
Further podcasts by Phil Nash & Jon Kalb
Website of Phil Nash & Jon Kalb