The Golden Rule of Programming

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by spo81rty • 14 years ago

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ciupicri• 14 years ago

Is Error establishing a database connection the golden rule of programming? :-)

gnuvince• 14 years ago

That's some Jedi Master type of rule right there.

sqba• 14 years ago

a better programmer I already am

yen223• 14 years ago

It is the exception that proves the rule!

spo81rty3• 14 years ago

Sorry, MySQL and word press couldn't take the traffic I guess :-(

shuma• 14 years ago

never knew that the golden rule was a database error.

GiraffeNecktie• 14 years ago

For me, it's more of a "general rule" than a "golden rule".

jconnop• 14 years ago

Welp. That's an interesting golden error.

Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vyvuBLO...

pbosko• 14 years ago

"If database connection can be null, it will be null."

MJR• 14 years ago

This is deep. I believe the golden rule is to keep your database online.

adamtulinius• 14 years ago

"if it can be null, it will be null"

And here comes a repetition of Maybe Foo in haskell, and Option in Scala/Java. Hehe :-)

damncabbage• 14 years ago

"If it can be null, it will be null"

So explicitly define what is allowed to ever be "null": http://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/null-pointers-vs-none-vs-m...

bunderbunder2• 14 years ago

Would that we could all just up and switch programming languages at the drop of a hat like that.

Explicitly defining what is ever allowed to be 'null' is a great habit that serves me extremely well during evenings and weekends. But it's completely useless to me, by virtue of being impossible, between 9am and 5pm.

3amOpsGuy• 14 years ago

I'm not a C# coder but I understood it was possible to have non-nullable types?

Keep meaning to try C# for a project sometime. I understand it to be a more expressive, programmer friendly Java.

bunderbunder2• 14 years ago

Value types are non-nullable. But they're also stack-allocated* and passed by value, so they're really only appropriate in certain cases. You can't use them as general-purpose non-nullable objects.

*In practice, though technically that bit's an implementation detail of Microsoft's run-time and not part of the language spec.

spo81rty3• 14 years ago

For some data types. Strings and objects can always be nullable.

PuercoPop• 14 years ago

Isn't it just an specific formulation of Murphy's Law? If something can go wrong it will. And that is not just the golden rule of programming, it's the golden rule of Life!

spo81rty3• 14 years ago

Sorry, MySQL crashed :-(

The Golden Rule of Programming

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