It’s been a while since this article referred to “lethal diseases to any business whether big or small” but many of the issues discussed therein persist even today. Why these occur, what programmers can do to address them, and the forks in those roads are nicely discussed in this tech note which covers a lot of ground. It’s also a lesson in how to be both comprehensive and comprehensible in 662 words.
And that’s also it for 2020: the next issue, in January 2021, will pick up with the promised topics on distribution funtions, digesting CSVs, and more.