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The Fine Thread between Being a Good Researcher and a Good Programmer
My “day job” is studying a PhD in Information Systems Management, where I am investigating the executable aspects of OPM (the Object-Process Methodology). While doing this I am also developing an open source tool where I am able to create OPM diagrams, and my plans are to use this tool as the interpreter of the OPM modeling language that I am creating (OPP – Object Process Programming). As a researcher, how the code looks, how much it is tested, patterns, style, etc.. is of no matter to me. What matters is the result: can I prove using the tool that … Continue reading
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An Exact Interface
A lot of thought is invested in creating Object Oriented programs, specially when creating their models. We want to have a simple yet powerful model, where objects can act in many different ways (polymorphism), some of them which have a fairly common implementation that can be reused all over the class hierarchy. To achieve this goal we (programmers) create either very explicit abstract base classes or interfaces. But it also shows that we are lazy. For example, the org.eclipse.draw2d.IFigure. It has 109 methods (yes, I counted them), most of them surely useful for a generic figure like containsPoint or getBackgroundColor, … Continue reading
