Programmers Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, July 31, 2014

Top new questions this week: Why was the first compiler written before the first interpreter? The first compiler was written by Grace Hopper in 1952 while the Lisp interpreter was written in 1958 by John McCarthy's student Steve Russell. Writing a compiler seems like a much harder problem than … history compilers interpreters   asked by anguyen 44 votes answered by Euphoric 68 votes Generally speaking, is it better to make all the functional parts or get UI working first - or a mix of the two? Generally speaking, is it better to make all the functional parts or get UI working first - or a mix of the two? Assuming you're working on something large, is it generally accepted practice to get … project-management user-interface   asked by hbdgaf 41 votes answered by MichaelT 74 votes Should the commit history be used to convey critical information to developers? Recently a conversation came up during a meeting regarding the rollback of a third-party SDK from the latest version and it was noted that the fact it shouldn't be used was already in the commit … version-control documentation   asked by rjzii 37 votes answered by 17 of 26 72 votes Should temporary code be put under version control and how? Here are some examples of temporary/local code. It is needed in order to work with the codebase, but would be harmful to be part of it: Project files. Paths may need to be edited in order to reflect … version-control   asked by Vorac 20 votes answered by gbjbaanb 35 votes Client Side Coding: How to prevent malicious use? Over the last few years, the trend for client side (browser) apps has really taken off. For my latest project, I have decide to try and move with the times and write a client side app. Part of this … javascript web-applications browser client-side   asked by Gaz_Edge 15 votes answered by Kilian Foth 84 votes What is meant by "OOP hides the state"? In one of many anti-OOP rants on cat-v.org I found a passage by Joe Armstrong raising several objections against the OOP model, one of which was the following: Objection 4 – Objects have private … object-oriented state   asked by Jake 9 votes answered by Telastyn 28 votes "Immutable" interfaces I am confused about the notion of immutability. Consider the following structure of a simplistic calculator: Here are the interfaces: interface IOperationalInterface { int Sum(int a, int b); } … design object-oriented naming interfaces immutability   asked by proskor 6 votes answered by Karl Bielefeldt 1 vote Greatest hits from previous weeks: Should we avoid object creation in Java? I was told by a colleague that in Java object creation is the most expensive operation you could perform. So I can only conclude to create as few objects as possible. This seems somewhat to defeat … java object-oriented programming-practices performance   asked by Slamice 99 votes answered by Jarrod Roberson 227 votes Why should passwords be encrypted if they are being stored in a secure database? I have a web service. Right now, I have passwords stored in plain text in a MySQL table on my server. I know this isn't the best practice, and that is why I am working on it. Why should passwords be … mysql encryption passwords   asked by phpmysqlguy 68 votes answered by pdr 190 votes Can you answer these? Pattern for data types that are related yet fundamentally different in utility Background I'm currently working on a codebase for what is to become a forthcoming website's content "engine", where it will take in different types of standardized data (implemented with XML), parse … design design-patterns   asked by Finnbhennach 1 vote JavaScript Combination Inheritance Pattern In the chapter of Professional JavaScript for Web Developers on OOP, Nicholas Zachas describes a JavaScript inheritance pattern which he refers to as combination inheritance. The basic idea is that … javascript inheritance   asked by Isaac Kleinman 2 votes What's the name of this category of variables (NEW, OLD, etc) in triggers? I need to do some very specific web search, but in order to do that I need to know what's the technical name of the category/type of variables like NEW, OLD, USER ( the could be more ) that you can … rdbms wording trigger   asked by user61852 2 votes

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