Uncle Bob Martin

I recently tweeted the following: Should you subdivide a functional program into classes the way you would an object oriented program? Yes. You should. Because the rules don’t change just because you’ve chosen to use immutable data structures. — Uncle Bob Martin (@unclebobmartin) January 17, 2023 This led to a bevy of interesting responses about the difference between classes and modules. In answer to those responses I tweeted this: A class is a group of

For the last month I’ve been spending a lot of time working on Space War. I know, I know, I should have been working on Clean Code Episode 67: Legacy Code, and Euler 5, and Countest and Curmugeon 3. I should have been working on a blog, or a new book, or… But I couldn’t let go of Space War. It kept calling me. The first time I wrote Space War was in 1978. I

I broke out my old Space War game a few days ago and decided to make a few changes to speed the game up and make it more fun to play. In so doing I discovered a very interesting bug. One of the changes I made was to populate the initial space with a few random bases scattered here and there. This would allow the player some extra resources with which to battle the Klingons

When I was 15 or so, my father would drive me, and my best friend, Tim Conrad, to the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) sales office each Saturday. This was a 30 min drive. My father would drop us off in the morning and pick us up in the late afternoon. He spend two hours in his car each Saturday hauling us around. Thanks Dad! Tim and I would spend our day “playing” with the floor