A pragmatic programmer is the one who deal with situations sensibly and realistically. And this book is to help you to learn the pragmatic programming from the years of experience of the authors in software development.
Perfect Secrecy
When dealing with encryption, there is a negligible probability that an attacker will be able to try out all the possible keys used to encrypt the message. Can we make an encryption scheme which will be secure even if attacker has infinite power?
Design patterns: Singleton pattern
There can be requirements when we need variables to maintain data for the system (like some global parameters) or need to call methods from the class without creating a new instance of the class every time. One solution to these situations will be to use static fields and methods. But with static, you can not inherit the methods or variables from another class or interface. Because of this, you...