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One really provocative and insightful comment that is independent of clojure itself: "I think programmers have become inured to incidental complexity... when t
by alex_stoddard 17y ago
One really provocative and insightful comment that is independent of clojure itself:
"I think programmers have become inured to incidental complexity... when they encounter complexity, they consider it a challenge to overcome, rather than an obstacle to remove.
Overcoming complexity isn't work, it's waste."
This is a useful maxim for me. I have definitely been attracted to complexity that was really incidental in programming.
- extension 17y agoThis is the secret of Java's success. Overcoming incidental complexity is predictable, measurable and rewarding to the average naive programmer. Solving real problems is challenging and risky. Java dilutes the latter with the former, and to those who can't tell the difference, this looks like productivity.
- dmaclay 17y agoEdsger Dijkstra had this to say: "Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?"