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Joe Armstrong on “Rhetorical Structure of Code”

• pwilson14 7y ago
  > My feeling is that most problems have already been solved - but we write code because it's quicker to write code than discover it. Fantastic quote.
  • mercer 7y ago
    > In a wiki if you click on a link and no page exists you are prompted to write some text - we could make a similar thing to develop programs. This reminds me of my early days of programming where I managed to build (relatively) complex apps/games in Delphi with only a murky understanding of even the basics of programming. I had only a vague notion of what a function/procedure was, for example, but being able to drag a button onto the canvas, double-clicking it, and seeing a text field where I could write code and refer to other elements made perfect sense.