Timeless Design Principles
summary
Argues eight concrete design rules (four simple, four modular) and proves them with a working carpet-quote example implemented and tested in Ruby, Visual Basic 6, C, Simula (1969) and Kotlin (2019). Shows how single responsibility, encapsulation, polymorphism and interface segregation are achieved via factory/constructor patterns, COM interfaces in VB6, vtables and function pointers in C, closures and higher-order functions in Kotlin, and that each language ticks all boxes. Claims these principles remain applicable across decades.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Fundamentals of design
- 3:35Dispelling myths
- 5:37Design principles in Ruby
- 11:58Design principles in VB6
- 17:49Design principles in C
- 23:59Legacy and Simula
- 26:58Timeless principles
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