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I would like to interject an observation on the original inspiration of this thread: > One idea

Hi Meir, No, those five functions are not necessarily large themselves. The total amount of code in

Unfortunately the formatting of your message (white text on black background, but only in strips on a

Hi John, I enjoyed your book - A Philosophy of Software Design - immensely. It is a much needed

Hi Professor Ousterhout, This book changed my perspective on programming. While I've read

I agree with definitions above. They could serve as initial starting point as well, although I took a

On Mon, Dec 22, 2025 at 11:49 AM 'Pierre Arnaud' via software-design-book <software-design

Hi Pierre, To be honest, it never occurred to me to distinguish two kinds of complexity as you have

instead of injecting context objects, I learnt from DCI to pull interaction logic out and into a

I'm following along and would like to point out that the discussion on undo/redo should

Hi, I just wanted to point to Scott Wlaschin's talk “Railway Oriented Programming” which

Is this email address still correct? Pozdrawiam/Best Regards Jarek Zelinski https://jaroslawzelinski.

Hi Seyed, You have my permission to "share a few very brief and high-level summaries of selected

My answer is pretty much along the same lines as vendiddy. I will add not to worry about interfaces

I don't seem to be able to open console windows in the following experiment: https://www.cloudlab

Thanks for reporting the error; it's now fixed in my sources. -John- On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 10:

Hello John At first, thanks again for sharing your ideas/knowledge and opening this discussion

I think this principle applies to product thinking as well. For example, if you have a product that

Hello Manh You are welcome :D Greetings, Mahmoud On Sunday, June 29, 2025 at 9:07:17 PM UTC+3 Manh

Dear Owner, I am writing to request being added to your mailing list. Thank you very much. Best

Thank you again, Dave I'd like to share a reflection and follow-up thought: In the past, I

Hi Jessica, The projects that I referenced in the book were those in a software design class I taught

I really agree with what's said in the "Redefine Errors out of Existence" chapter, but

I just wanted to say that this is one of the best descriptions of how to properly use an LLM that I

I'm with John Moving in the right direction matters more than perfecting each individual step A

Hi John, It is really refreshing reading your book. I had a minor comment about this section. Instead

Hi Brad, Thanks for the note. I have now fixed this typo in my sources for the book, so it will

Hi John, Thanks for the detailed response. Your explanation makes sense to me. I believe the Redpanda

For the trivial example of: >Set _x_ to the largest element in a multiset _A_ of numbers. if this

Section 2.3 says: "Complexity is caused by two things: dependencies and obscurity."