I just thought of this, as I sat contemplating an issue I’m having at work. The issue, without getting too much into detail, is about the best practices for designing a certain pluggable component of a larger framework. As with much of the OO C-descendant world, the component is defined by an interface that someone implements, and the question has arisen, “How do we tell somebody to write one of these?”
I’ve been thinking more about one of my coworker’s many (strong) opinions, that programming languages are nothing more than syntax. I worry that we get too far taken by this argument, that we start to think of languages as the brand of hammer we use to pound the nail instead of the tools we use to solve the problem. Then again, languages are even more than the tools we use to solve the problem, they are the problem.
If you haven’t seen it, Publix just announced that they will be giving away seven (7) common oral antibiotics (I admit, the first time I read this as oral contraceptives, since you don’t usually see “antibiotics” qualified with “oral”). So why don’t I care? I remember the last time I accompanied a friend to pick up a prescription for 2 weeks of one of the common antibiotics. The sum total of her bill was…drum roll please…
$0.50.
That’s right. Publix will now give you about 50 cents off your pharmacy bill. Woo-fuckin-hoo.
