Top new questions this week:

Coding Style for Visually Impaired Programmer

I am visually impaired. With glasses I see well enough to drive, but at the font size I'm comfortable working at I can only see about 15 lines of 100 characters at a time. This has affected my …

coding-style disability

asked by Denise Skidmore 41 votes answered by Shoe 30 votes

Teamwork and working alone for too long

I have been working on a system alone for about four years. I have built it from the ground up and it is not a perfect system. The business is aware of this. I have worked with other developers for …

teamwork

asked by w0051977 35 votes answered by haylem 57 votes

Does Lisp still have any special feature which has NOT been adopted by other programming languages?

By Lisp, I mean all the Lisp programming languages in a whole. I've been told how amazing Lisp is and know that many languages have been inspired by Lisp. But, I wonder if Lisp still has any …

programming-languages lisp

asked by iceX 23 votes answered by Greg Hewgill 16 votes

How do programming languages define functions?

How do programming languages define and save functions/methods? I am creating an interpreted programming language in Ruby, and I am trying to figure out how to implement function declaration. My …

programming-languages language-design functions methods

asked by Doorknob 19 votes answered by Mason Wheeler 21 votes

Is rotating developers on a project a good or bad idea?

I'm working on a small team that will begin working on a large new project with another small team. The other team is currently working on a legacy system that they have been working on for years. …

project-management teamwork team

asked by Christian P 18 votes answered by Aaronaught 32 votes

Can Scrum use technical specifications in the Product Backlog rather than user stories?

At the company I am currently working for we started to do Scrum projects. It was not so hard to convince the managers to move from waterfall to Scrum. We're doing a project where we rebuild our …

project-management scrum user-story product-backlog

asked by sanders 12 votes answered by Michael 8 votes

Is learning C essential for Computer Science?

I am a front-end developer who barely even see a file with .h or .c extension. I know basic C syntax, I've learned it in Unreality but never was interested in such low level programming because it …

c computer-science

asked by Mohsen 11 votes answered by Charles E. Grant 20 votes

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

Why do people hesitate to use Python 3?

Python 3 was released in December 2008. A lot of time has passed since then but still today many developers hesitate to use Python 3. Even popular frameworks like Django are not compatible with Python …

programming-languages python community upgrade

asked by Ham 74 votes answered by ncoghlan 139 votes

What does C++ do better than D?

I have recently been learning D and am starting to get some sort of familiarity with the language. I know what it offers, I don't yet know how to use everything, and I don't know much about D idioms …

programming-languages c++ d

asked by Anto 128 votes answered by Peter Alexander 118 votes

Can you answer these?

ActiveX, OLE, COM explanation or informative links

I've been programming a lot with C# on Visual Studio and many minor/other languages, but I'm having a really hard time to get the grasp of ActiveX, OLE, COM interfaces. All I got is that they're like …

object-oriented interfaces dll

asked by user2212907 2 votes

Mapping variable inputs to user interface elements

Background Developing a system for creating eBooks. The data is highly normalized. The eBook designs are packaged as "themes." The themes can be configured with options for: fonts, colours, some …

xml user-interface automation xhtml xslt

asked by Dave Jarvis 5 votes

When to use embedded script language?

I already read some post about the why use embedded script language but I want to ask when to use it. I have implemented an Objective-C / Javascript binding framework which allow me to write …

design-patterns javascript objective-c scripting

asked by xlc 1 vote