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Re:No evidence that TDD differs from a TLD by davidgrenier on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @09:19AM (#12643531)
It'd be great if the authors now compared TDD/TLD with TFD (Type First Development).

Side reading: http://tomasp.net/blog/type-first-development.aspx/

Re:No evidence that TDD differs from a TLD by dalke on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @11:11AM (#12644466)
That only works if there are many types.

I work with molecules, expressed as molecular graphs. The algorithm development I do is mostly graph manipulation, with a small number of types. For example, given N molecules, find the largest subgraph (in terms of the number of edges) which are in at least k of them.

Or, think about computing an FFT, or clustering a data set.

Types add little to how to think about these problems, so TFD provides little structure to this sort of algorithm development process.