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I like "power." It's evocative, and it maps to the feeling you get with a good language - when your intent is made manifest with little effort, you feel powerfu
by warbaker 8y ago
I like "power." It's evocative, and it maps to the feeling you get with a good language - when your intent is made manifest with little effort, you feel powerful (and _are_ powerful).
- paulddraper 8y agoIs Assembly powerful?
- honestoHeminway 8y agoAh, that sweet feeling of superiority that flows through one, creating code, that no mortal after me shall comprehend.
- pjc50 8y agoI think these are fairly good reasons why the term should not be used. Appeal to the developer's power fantasy?
- kkarakk 8y agowhat a buzzfeed worthy comment
- jtms 8y agothen should we aspire to... weakness, fragility, and impotence?
- fwip 8y agoHow about things like readability and ease of maintenance and modification? To those people making real products (and not just coding for a hobby), enabling collaboration is far more important than whether it lets the programmer feel clever and powerful. (Hobby coding is cool and important too, but the aims are different.)