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Back when I started programming professionally, every expert and every software engineering professor would swear by object-oriented programming. Resistance was futile. History had spoken: the future was object-oriented.
It is hard to understate how strong the mania was. In education, we started calling textbooks and videos ‘learning objects‘. Educators would soon ‘combine learning objects and reuse them‘....

In C++, there are different ways to pass a value to a function. Typically, at any given time, an object in C++ ‘belongs’ to a single function. The various ways to call a function differ in who owns the object, the caller or the callee (the function being...

Peer review as we know it today was introduced very late, over a century after the scientific revolution. It happened after Einstein’s time… arguably the most productive era in science. Current scientists often equate a success with the publication in...

Python is probably the most popular programming language in the world right now. Python is easy to extend using C code.
You may want to return from Python a small data structure. When crossing from C to Python, there is an overhead. Thus, if performance is a concern, you do not want to return lots of small values such as hundreds of individual small strings....