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It absolutely needs to be admitted that it is easy to make a well intentioned unmaintainable mess in Lisp and other highly dynamic languages. Brilliant programm
by Almaviva 16y ago
It absolutely needs to be admitted that it is easy to make a well intentioned unmaintainable mess in Lisp and other highly dynamic languages. Brilliant programmer A will add a lot of layers and abstractions that make sense in one context, which is great until brilliant programmer B does so in a different context. This all seems to break down somewhere when the number of programmers exceeds 1.
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- ScottBurson 16y agoI've worked on several large Lisp systems, and have never had this problem. You can make a mess in any language. I will grant that Lisp offers more ways to do that than most languages, but so does C++ (template metaprogramming, anyone?).
- tumult 16y agoTemplate metaprogramming is awesome. All of the C++ messes I've seen are related to ridiculous OO crap.
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- ScottBurson 16y agoWell, my point is that you can make a mess using template metaprogramming. Maybe that doesn't actually happen too often, because anyone smart enough to use TMP at all is smart enough not to make a mess :) But you're right, the actual messes I've seen in C++ have not involved TMP. Come to think of it, most of them have been around "const" misuse.
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- mahmud 16y agoWhat does "add a lot of layers and abstractions that make sense in one context" mean? Is that like "entities and/or actions placed or performed in a certain manner for a particular purpose, or to carry out a certain task"? Everything in a high-level programming language is an "abstraction". And anything outside the grammar of the language is a convention.