Exercises in Style
summary
Implements the same term-frequency program under many concrete constraints to reveal how style changes design, tooling and performance: short code-golf Python versions run tiny but take ~5 minutes; a tabular variant uses SQLite and SQL queries; a map-reduce parallel split/merge variant chunks the file and reduces workers; examples include monolithic, procedural, functional, continuation, object, publish/subscribe and Hadoop-like styles. Goal is term-frequency in 33+ styles with code on Python + GitHub repo and rapid community contributions validating the approach.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 0:32Programming Styles
- 11:15Exercises in Style
- 23:09Fewer Lines of Code Is Better
- 27:35Constraints
- 28:49Candy Factory Style
- 34:25Main Characteristics
- 35:04The Kingdom of Noun Style
- 37:02Split Words
- 37:21Apply a Map Function
- 39:13Inverse Multiplexer
- 46:06How Do You Distinguish between Style and Patents
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