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Thoughts on internet slang

Published by in Internet on July 5th, 2009

Literacy and linguistics are skills and like any skills that must be learned and practiced.  Increased incidents of “bad practice” are at the detriment of “good practice”. It is important to distinguish informal and formal language use.  The greater levels of acceptance of informality with society, is cause “spillage” of Internet idioms into spoken language.

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Design by Contract

‘Design by Contract’ both improves the design and reliability of software, but it does so at a cost.  It has been demonstrated that design by contract could have averted some the software industries biggest disasters. However it is important to realize that it is only a technique and not a “silver bullet”, whilst used appropriately

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