Posts by nsd 2 publicly visible posts • joined 7 May 2011
You've eliminated the large broadcast domain by routing, but you've increased the size of the ARP table. You now need a device with larger ARP tables than you used to with 3 tiers, which current cheap silicon doesn't have, since it was built expecting to need only enough ARP entries for a 3 tier application. (And typically ARP tables are replicated across a stack, so they don't scale up).
Yes explicitly putting the {} and making sure the { is on the same line as the if statement works as expected. However the other three common "C" layouts fail: the one I mentioned above, the { on the next line, and the body on the same line as the if. I don't like C-like unless it is really C-like. Somewhat close trips me up.
Go also missed the "indentation is information" boat which python, haskell (and others I don't know--Eiffel I think) got right, IMO. It enforces that the code be pretty. That isn't nice for generated code, but great for humans.
Still despite its faults it's very nice for multi-threaded code, server or otherwise.
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