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> I’ll be the first person to admit I have no idea what postmodernism actually means Well, if we want to take the title literally: Error handling is a fundame
by chimeracoder 10y ago
> I’ll be the first person to admit I have no idea what postmodernism actually means
Well, if we want to take the title literally:
Error handling is a fundamentally Modernist idea - shoring up errors and "correcting" or at least containing them.
Postmodern error handling would be anything that reasonably counts as a reaction against Modernist error handling. The most basic would be not handling errors at all, and instead embracing the chaos of an error-prone system, and designing a system in which errors propagate but converge to a desirable value.
- adamcharnock 10y agoTo add to this, AFAIK postmodernism is actually a critique of modernism rather than a being a substitute for it. This critique may/will eventually produce a concept which can replace modernism. I found that enlightening, but it is probably also splitting hairs with regards to the blog post.
- bandrami 10y agoIt's also important to remember that "postmodernism" is at this point about 130 years old.
- chimeracoder 10y ago> It's also important to remember that "postmodernism" is at this point about 130 years old. You're thinking of Modernism. Postmodernism is more like 60 years old, depending on how you draw the line, and it's still an ongoing and developing set of philosophies.
- bandrami 10y agoThe term was used in the 1880s in painting circles; it probably varies by field
- coldtea 10y ago>The term was used in the 1880s in painting circles Not in any great capacity that culture in general was aware of. Only in the mid-20th century, and especially post 60s, it became an actual thing with the meaning we associate with it.