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"tons of libraries" - weren't you the one saying that stupid people don't use libraries? :-)
by j_baker 16y ago
"tons of libraries" - weren't you the one saying that stupid people don't use libraries? :-)
- DanielBMarkham 16y agoGosh no, but happy you read the blog! My point in the blog was that functional code allows you to "collect" bits of things here are there and then create your own toolset of useful stuff to do. This decreases the working set of symbols a programmer must maintain to a much more manageable level, while maximizing productivity. It's the difference between the phonebook and having a few important people's numbers written on a piece of paper. The phone book is probably more "powerful" but the process of collecting and managing useful data from the phonebook is the important thing, not the phonebook itself. Instead we study libraries as if they were ends to themselves. This is like trying to memorize the phone book in order to be able to call people. Yet we continue to do it.