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American software engineer

Person · Open Library

Works
17

Top works

  • Contributing to Eclipse Principles Patterns and Plug Ins
  • Tidy First?
  • Multi Pack Sofrware Engineering : Theory and Practise and Extreme Programming Explained
  • CRC
  • Padrões de Implementação

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1970-07-08

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
48
Total plays
80

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. An Inventory for Measuring Depression

    · 1961 · cited 28,269x

  2. Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities

    · 2000 · cited 23,009x

  3. Geant4—a simulation toolkit

    · 2003 · cited 21,263x

  4. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,612x

  5. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,770x

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Quotes

  • I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby.
  • I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
  • When you find you have to add a feature to a program, and the program's code is not structured in a convenient way to add the feature, first refactor the program to make it easy to add the feature, then add the feature.
  • Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
  • Refactoring (noun) : a change made to the internal structure of software to make it easier to understand and cheaper to modify without changing the observable behavior of the software. To refactor (verb) : to restructure software by applying a series of refactorings without changing the observable behavior of the software.
  • Often you'll see the same three or four data items together in lots of places: fields in a couple of classes, parameters in many method signatures. Bunches of data that hang around together really ought to be made into their own object.

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