What's Your Function?

Abstract
A function is a fundamental building block in software development and a key tool for designing efficient and maintainable systems. This talk looks at the characteristics of a “good” function and provides practical guidance on when and how to refactor and utilize existing libraries to develop _Better Code_.
Speaker Bio
Sean Parent is a senior principal scientist and software architect for Adobe’s mobile digital imaging group and Photoshop. Sean has been at Adobe since 1993 when he joined as a senior engineer working on Photoshop and later managed Adobe’s Software Technology Lab. In 2009 Sean spent a year at Google working on Chrome OS before returning to Adobe. From 1988 through 1993 Sean worked at Apple, where he was part of the system software team that developed the technologies allowing Apple’s successful transition to PowerPC.

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In Python, the "sorted" function is named like this because it returns a new sorted list. Whereas "sort" (e.g. list.sort) sorts the list in-place. They wanted to make this distinction obvious in the function name.