Re:No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers
by tasuki on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @05:57AM
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> And null pointer exceptions? They only happen to me very rarely, when I quickly hack something together and then it is a "oh forgot - and fixed" problem.
And you never run into NPEs in production? It's something you always discover during development? How?
> The problems I do struggle with are non reproducable race condition fun etc. and I doubt haskell could help me with them.
In a pure system, thread race conditions are impossible. You can still get race conditions for your external effects, which is unavoidable.
And null pointer exceptions? They only happen to me very rarely, when I quickly hack something together and then it is a "oh forgot - and fixed" problem. The problems I do struggle with are non reproducable race condition fun etc. and I doubt haskell could help me with them. Or I struggle, because I do not really understand my problem, or a certain libary ... or, because I misunderstood existing code.
So how on earth are correct programms orthogonal to how easy it is to read and write them?!? Did you ever had to use someone else code? Or your own that you wrote 5 years ago (or sometimes 5 days)?
With any bigger project it is all about how easy it is to read and write them.