Too often I hear developers insist that they can’t do something because it’s “too hard,” and what they mean is not that it requires hundreds of A100 GPUs and petabytes of RAM or that it’s equivalent to solving the halting problem. It means they’re going to have sit at their laptops and work on (or prompt LLMs to work…
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Version 3.0 of Python has been released . Notably Python has again done something Java has long resisted: it has broken backwards compatibility with Python 2.x. Notable fixes include a much saner string processing model based on Unicode. I am told by my Pythonista colleagues that a lot of other weirdnesses such as the…
The following example, taken from an introductory text in object oriented programming, demonstrates a common flaw in object oriented design. Can you spot it?