mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 14 2009 | software, design, development, joel
Quoted: Having a good program manager is one of the secret formulas to making really great software. And you probably don’t have one on your team, because most teams don’t.
- mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 01 2006 | google, microsoft, joel, programming
Great post from Joel regarding functional programming.
Quoted: Without understanding functional programming, you can't invent MapReduce, the algorithm that makes Google so massively scalable. The terms Map and Reduce come from Lisp and functional programming. MapReduce is, in retrospect, obvious to anyone who remembers from their 6.001-equivalent programming class that purely functional programs have no side effects and are thus trivially parallelizable. The very fact that Google invented MapReduce, and Microsoft didn't, says something about why Microsoft is still playing catch up trying to get basic search features to work, while Google has moved on to the next problem
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