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Anyone want to fill me in on what this "Perlis-Thompson Principle" is?
by asciimov 5y ago
Anyone want to fill me in on what this "Perlis-Thompson Principle" is?
- JohnL4 5y agoI had to Google it and scroll a blog post.
- JohnL4 5y agohttp://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/07/blog-backlog-2.html http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/07/blog-backlog-2.html
- chubot 5y agoI still have to explain it properly, but there is a pretty good sketch on a recent blog post, linked from this comment. (You will probably end up chasing a lot of comment threads, but it's mostly there.) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27914632 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27914632 It's an argument about avoiding O(M*N) glue code. O(M*N) amounts of code are expensive to write, and contain O(M*N) numbers of bugs.