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No I mean solve the problem "we need to build a program that does what it's required to do" (and no more) before trying to build a library that will cure diseas
by jstimpfle 8y ago
No I mean solve the problem "we need to build a program that does what it's required to do" (and no more) before trying to build a library that will cure diseases.
- lmm 8y agoThat's a total non sequitur. Libraries can, and usually should, be much smaller than applications.
- jstimpfle 8y agoLibraries are much harder than applications because they must work for a large number of applications with diverse requirements. They need to be more abstract, and therein lies the danger. Regarding the size, clearly wrong. It depends a lot on the library. A windowing or font rastering library will be a lot larger than your typical application. And for libraries that are much smaller than the application itself, why bother depending on them? (Anecdote, I heard the Excel team in the 90s had their own compiler).