This is the first of many blog posts to come, with my notes on the talks given at SCNA 2010.
This morning, on the first day, Uncle Bob gave a talk titled "Failure of State." My notes on the talk are below.
SICP - Uncle Bob has mentioned this book many times, and I finally put it on my Kindle today. As a craftsman, you should definitely read this book. It's free but if you can, buy it to support the authors. There are also free lectures available as well.
The substitution model - you can replace function calls repeatedly, ending up with a "silly" version but one that is also stateless and thread-safe. The example given was a program that printed the squares of the first twenty (20) integers.
Many stateful programs exhibit temporal coupling; that is one statement (function/method/etc) must be called before another. In other words, time matters. For example, opening a file, then closing it.
However; in functional programming, y=f(x) no matter when you call it and every time you call it.
Programming has seen three failures so far: 1) the GOTO statement; 2) pointers to functions, and 3) state. Finally, Uncle Bob showed the CQRS pattern, where CRUD is separated into CUD and R.
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