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I’ve promised myself never to use gradle (www.andreinc.net)
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[–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Yeah, I'd be pretty wary of a dev who needed clarification on DAGs...

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    They probably know what it is, but it's a bad point if they're trying to paint DAGs as esoteric CS stuff for the average programmer. I needed to use a topological sort for work coding 2 weeks ago, and any time you're using a build system, even as simple as Make, you're using DAGs. Acting like it's a tough concept makes me wonder why I should accept the rest of the argument.

    Can't say I have a strong feeling about Gradle though 🤷‍♀️

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Agreed. Why would a person need to look it up when the name literally describes it. Directed? Means connections are in a single direction. Acyclic? A-cyclic = non-cyclical, doesn't have cycles. Graph is... well a graph.

    Which part does the author think an average programmer should struggle with?

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