BuilderBuilder: The Model in Haskell

This post describes the first model in Haskell for the BuilderBuilder task. We will develop the model incrementally until we have rough parity with the Java version. I’m experimenting with ways to distinguish user input from system output in transcripts of interactive sessions. This time I’m trying color, using a medium blue for output. I [...]

BuilderBuilder: Haskell Preliminaries

The next step in the BuilderBuilder project is to develop a model in Haskell that is analogous to the Java model in the previous post. This post will introduce just enough Haskell to get started; the next post will get into the BuilderBuilder model. Environment: I’m using GHC 6.10.1, obtained from the Haskell web site. [...]

BuilderBuilder: The Model in Java

This post will describe a tiny Java model for implementing the BuilderBuilder task. It is simple almost to the point of crudity, because the goal of the series is to compare languages and styles, not to produce production-ready sample code. This post will focus on the parts of the overall data flow highlighted below: The [...]

BuilderBuilder: The Task

Short version: Given minimal information (package, class name, and collection of fields described by name and type), produce Java source for a data transfer class, including a static inner class that functions as a builder. The data flow of this task looks like this: Given data in a specified input format, a loader will consume [...]

BuilderBuilder: The Agenda

The “BuilderBuilder” posts will be my exploration of one question: “What does Functional Programming mean to me as a practicing OO software developer?” Despite contemporary buzz about how FP will save the world from bugs and single-threaded code, I don’t want to read (or write) another clever Fibonacci number generator, or another theoretical explanation of [...]