So I used to read Joel On Software quite a bit. A few posts stand out, but one in particular is Making Wrong Code Look Wrong for a few reasons: the problem Joel describes is real, it’s subtle, and the proposed solution is elegant and trivial. Now I’m not going to claim I’m disciplined enough to actually follow it all the time – especially since most of my projects start off as toys where it’s easy enough to keep things right – but I love the idea in theory.
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Modernizing C++ Interfaces
Let’s assume a project has to transform data from one form to another; this could be updating a configuration file during a software update, loading XML to store into a database, or any of the other million things that this problem applies to. For the sake of simplicity, we’ll assume the theoretical project needs to convert strings from mixed-case to uppercase.
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