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Tangled Up in Tools: What's wrong with libraries and what to do about it
- gte910h 17y agoIs the TLDR: Have smaller API's for your libraries?
- hga 17y agoNot exactly. I only skimmed it (and yep, the sushi looked good :-), and mostly looked at his second point, which is more like keeping the scope of your APIs small. To use a delightful term from Ted Nelson, you very much want to limit how the parts of your system are intertwingled (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertwingularity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertwingularity). The less you have to juggle in your head at once, the better; he connected this to flow (quoting Joel S.) ... I'd put it "the less deep you have to get into flow the better". Or to quote Brooks, limit accidental complexity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet).
- Semiapies 17y agoI'm halfway through this post...and famished.