Save-Compile-Run, is not cool!
Hot application deployment – now that is cool !! Early development environments did a reasonably OK job in ensuring that the programmer does not have to face a long wait between making a change to their program and seeing the result. When a single vendor controlled the complete development environment, it was possible to do …. Read More
Life after “Hello World!”
“Hello World!” – A phrase immortalized by Dennis Ritchie – the creator of my favourite programming language C. “Hello World!” was used to demonstrate by example, how a minimilal ‘C’ program can be written, compiled and run. The beauty of the ‘C’ language was that once the learner created their first program, they could incrementally …. Read More
How development frameworks let us down
Back in my day, when only frameworks that existed were meant for pictures. Early in the IT evolution, the two main development environments – Unix and Microsoft were evolving independently. Naturally, the need for some control was felt lest we end up with a “one or the other” kind of computing world too, already dealing …. Read More
