Daniel Jackson

@Grady_Booch And finally, since I suspect @Grady_Booch and others here might find it relevant, this isn't just OOP either: essenceofsoftware.com/posts/concepts…

@Grady_Booch I'll give you a sneak preview. Yes, this all about coupling and cohesion. What's new is that the approach offers _complete_ decoupling of the main functional units, and cohesion is achieved not just by stating that it's desirable but by grouping functionality in a particular way.

@Grady_Booch A little surprised by the tenor of this thread. Perhaps folks didn't actually read the research paper that the news article is about? You can find a blog post about it here (for easy reading), with a link to the article at the top of the post: essenceofsoftware.com/posts/wysiwid/

@Brendon614195 @Cheers_Books @MIT_CSAIL Thank you! It was an honor to participate in this, and I'm thrilled that Cheers has published my book for Chinese readers.

@Cheers_Books @MIT_CSAIL Prof. Daniel Jackson's keynote speech is very useful for RD & PM, I like his insights in his book The Essence of Software.

The Global #SoftwareEngineering Conference was a huge success last Friday! Our author, @MIT_CSAIL Prof. Daniel Jackson, was one of the standout speakers. The Chinese edition of his book, "The Essence of Software" truly shined!📚 Definitely a highlight of the event! #SECon

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@BNuseibeh @ShriramKMurthi @ICSEconf So nostalgic to see this -- thank you, Bashar!

@ShriramKMurthi In that case, here’s another photo from the @ICSEconf 2009 workshop celebrating Michael Jackson’s work - the photo is of the speakers at that workshop.. do you recognise everyone?! 🥸

Few people I know inspire & educate me as much as my friend & mentor Michael Jackson. His clear thinking & ideas about SE for cyber-physical systems, exemplified by our discussion today on autonomous cars, has left me with thought-provoking research challenges to chew on. 🤔🙏🏽

@SebastienBubeck @nytimes @bing Moral high ground? The person who writes a thoughtful (if arguably, in places, misguided) editorial or the one who responds by posting a formulaic and mostly trite rebuttal generated by a bot?

The Chomsky et al. opinion piece in the @nytimes about ChatGPT is making the rounds. Rather than trying to deconstruct their argument, I asked @bing what it thinks of it. Now you can judge for yourself who has the moral high ground 😂.

More on this in a recent blog post at essenceofsoftware.com/posts/ux-desig…

Is UX design siloed? Many companies have UX designers who think most about visuals and user interfaces, but it's the software engineers who figure out the concepts that really determine the user experience. We need a new approach to software design that brings them together...

Might Zoom be risking their entire business because of deficiencies in one small concept? Puzzled why they don't fix this: all we need is a meeting list. essenceofsoftware.com/posts/missing-…

@ShriramKMurthi @amyjko @JAldrichPL @mcoblenz @AndrewCMyers @hillelogram Really curious to see those notes...

@danieljacksoncs @amyjko @JAldrichPL @mcoblenz @AndrewCMyers @hillelogram You I will forgive anything, Daniel. (-: (And I'm very much enjoying Essence; I stalled while reading it because my notes got too long.)

Are there any good takedowns of why S-expressions are a poor syntax choice? I've read so many things by people on why they're great, and people commenting they're ugly, but not an in-depth investigation into their problems.

@ShriramKMurthi @amyjko @JAldrichPL @mcoblenz @AndrewCMyers @hillelogram But you know I love HTDP, so maybe you'll forgive me... And hearing Martin Henz give a v nice talk this week about his new SICP-in-JS book did make me a bit nostalgic for the original...

@danieljacksoncs @amyjko @JAldrichPL @mcoblenz @AndrewCMyers @hillelogram Well, well, look who just showed up on Twitter to troll me. (-:

@ShriramKMurthi @amyjko @JAldrichPL @mcoblenz @AndrewCMyers @hillelogram (maybe? (and (not (compatible-with nesting natural-language)) (naturally-favor we sequential-forms)))

@amyjko @JAldrichPL @mcoblenz @AndrewCMyers @hillelogram It's nice to see CDN has entered the chat, but it's also pretty easy to mis-apply, and this is a good example. Jonathan presents these items from an outsider's perspective. Those aren't the only answers to these categories.

@yoavgo Good question! I've asked it myself repeatedly over the years I spent working on the book. And then I'd hit a snag, realize that it's not trivial, it's just wrong, fix the snag and it becomes trivial again :-). Hope you enjoy it at least...

i am ~100 pages in the book "The Essence of Software: Why Concepts Matter for Great Design" and trying to figure out if i find it groundbreaking phenomenal, or trivial.

@ShriramKMurthi @roboticwrestler @ComPrgm @mengwong @mcoblenz @lindsey @typeswitch @sarahchasins @joshsunshine @JAldrichPL @neurocy @barik Hope you'll share them... very curious :-)

@roboticwrestler @ComPrgm @mengwong @mcoblenz @lindsey @typeswitch @sarahchasins @joshsunshine @JAldrichPL @neurocy @barik I have more notes than I know what to do with…