Interview with Ken Arnold on Design

Bill Venners writes "Artima.com recently completed publishing a six-part interview with Ken Arnold on distributed systems, JavaSpaces, and design. In Perfection and Simplicity, Ken explains why there's no such thing as a perfect design and proposes the radical notion that programmers are people. In Taste and Aesthetics, Ken discusses the role of taste and arrogance in design, the value of other people's problems, and the virtue of simplicity. In Designing Distributed Systems, Ken addresses the concerns of distributed systems design, including the need to expect failure, avoid state, and plan for recovery. In Sway with JavaSpaces, Ken describes the basic idea of a JavaSpace, illustrates how decoupling leads to reliability. In Data, Decoupling, and Iteration, Ken explains how JavaSpaces lets you "throw in a grain and watch it grow." In Java Design Issues, Ken discusses whether to prohibit subclassing, whether to use Cloneable or copy constructors, and when to use marker interfaces."