Joshua Bloch Quotes

#1. One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names.

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#2. Premature optimization is the root of all evil. - Donald E. Knuth [

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#3. The cleaner and nicer the program, the faster it's going to run. And if it doesn't, it'll be easy to make it fast.

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#4. Favor composition over inheritance,

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#5. Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them.

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#6. When you choose a language, you're choosing more than a set of technical trade-offs-you're choosing a community.

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#7. When in doubt, leave it out.

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#8. It is hard to write even the smallest piece of code correctly.

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#9. Builder pattern is more verbose than the telescoping constructor pattern, so it should be used only if there are enough parameters, say, four or more.

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#10. A second advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they are not required to create a new object each time they're invoked.

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