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A Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google

John Ousterhout, Stanford professor and creator of Tcl, presents the ideas of his book A Philosophy of Software Design in a Talks at Google session. He covers managing complexity, deep modules and interfaces, and what he teaches in his Stanford software design course.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN treats it as the standard one-hour teaser for the book and recommends it for its deep-modules thinking before buying or reading the book.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Talks at Google
Topic
software design
Format
talk
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
11
HN mentions in dataset
20
Recommendation years in dataset
2018–2026

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From the original HN conversations

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  • I haven't read the book yet, but I have watched his Talks at Google talk on the topic [1] a couple of times (1 hour), highly recommended. [1] [VIDEO]

    EdwardCoffin on Hacker News · 2019-02
    In Programming Books You Wish You Read Earlier

  • > I'd rather get to value now by making something that just works(and is adequately tested) than engineer something thats future proof but takes longer to get out. If you haven't read it, I highly recommend A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout. His …

    loup-vaillant on Hacker News · 2023-01
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  • This google talk [VIDEO] is a condensed version of the (already small - 150 pags IIRC) book. I highly recommend both. To the point made by the GP (and others here) about how useful the book is, I must add that I got a whole …

    devnonymous on Hacker News · 2024-07
    In A brief interview with Tcl creator John Ousterhout (2023)

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