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Optimizing Development For Fun

Posted by Zonk on from the haskell-has-never-been-or-will-ever-be-fun dept.

chromatic writes "Geoff Broadwell has written an analysis of optimizing an open source project for fun, specifically the Pugs project. Broadwell argues that making development fun and easy leads to higher quality code and a faster velocity of development, even when implementing a frivolous project (a toy Perl 6 interpreter) in an uncommon language (Haskell). The Pugs leader, Autrijus Tang, will speak about both Pugs and Haskell at EuroOSCON."

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  1. Motivation by nicobn · · Score: 0, Troll

    What motivates a programmer to spend time on open source projects ? Certainly the spirit.

  2. Re:Optimus Prime by Ranger · · Score: 0, Troll

    The article was about optimizing development, not optimizing code.

    You've obviously mistaken me for someone who actually read the article. Anyway, I don't see any difference between the two.

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