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Naur's classic essay (and maybe my favorite essay in all of software engineering) "Programming as theory building" [0 ] comes to mind. If the theory of the prog
by fsloth 5y ago
Naur's classic essay (and maybe my favorite essay in all of software engineering) "Programming as theory building" [0 ] comes to mind. If the theory of the program is lost then it's quite hard to continue work no matter what the language used.
Based on your description it might as well have been scrapped regardless of the programming language used?
[0] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
- aliswe 5y agoNo, the problem is that hardly noone had even heard of OCaml, much less had any experience with any functional language, much less knew how to maintain this tool. My point is that it was very tone deaf to introduce a new technology onto the stack for this reason (so called resume-based development I think?).
- Kototama 5y agoI doubt it, ocaml has very little job offers. Didn't you have a process or better communication to avoid this situation?
- aliswe 5y agoYou doubt what exactly? Nah we hardly had any processes at all back then.
- Kototama 5y agoI doubt it's for the resume because there are very few ocaml jobs.
- hiptobecubic 5y agoYou don't need to find a job that wants ocaml, just a job that recognizes what it means that you've written it.