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Looking for a real-world example illustrating that composition can be superior to inheritance

I watched a bunch of lectures on Clojure and functional programming by Rich Hickey as well as some of the SICP lectures, and I am sold on many concepts of functional programming. I incorporated some ...
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Python simulation-scripts architecture

Situation: I've some scripts that simulate user-activity on desktop. Therefore I've defined a few cases (workflows) and implemented them in Python. I've also written some classes for interacting with ...
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Scientific software design [closed]

I asked this question over at stackoverflow and it was suggested a tighter form be posted here. Many early career numerical researchers face the prospect of having to create performance critical ...
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What is the most effective approach to learn an unfamiliar complex program? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do you dive into large code bases? I have quite a bit of experience with different programming languages and writing small and functional programs for a variety of ...
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Architecting Python application consisting of many small scripts

I am building an application which, at the moment, consists of many small Python scripts. Each Python script processes items from one Amazon SQS queue. Emails come into an initial queue and are ...