06:54 Don't try to make one language look like another
07:34 Don't reinvent bool
10:36 Code flows from left to right, top to bottom
13:31 Reduce conditionals
14:59 Avoid negation
19:31 Simplify compound if conditionals
21:39 Reduce the number of casts
22:57 Use self-documenting language features
25:56 Pass an abstract sink for a function's output
27:58 Pass files as buffers rather than filenames to be read
30:34 The caller, not the callee, should call the environment
31:45 Callee writes to buffer, caller writes to file
32:30 Use function pointers (or templates)
34:10 Functions should be in one of two categories, not both
35:48 Line things up
36:43 Use ref instead of *
Of these, I think I find:
"25:56 Pass an abstract sink for a function's output" -- the most potentially interesting...
Why? Because it can almost be thought of as borderline functional programming -- within an Imperative and/or Object-Oriented programming language... at least as far as the function using this method goes... it also has a wide variety of applications, i.e., instead of having a function do memory allocation (requiring that memory to be freed somewhere else in the program), why not pass such a function an additional memory allocator function pointer or object -- where the allocation (and subsequent deallocation) of memory -- is managed in some other well-defined place in the code...
Anyway, it's a great video! Well worth watching!
