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Structure is a virtue, not a vice. By doing this you're subverting your own interests.
by preseinger 5y ago
Structure is a virtue, not a vice. By doing this you're subverting your own interests.
- pdpi 5y agoStructure is a tool. Like any tool, it can be misused or overused. For anything even remotely production-y I'll always prefer explicitly parsing JSON into a known structure, but there's a lot of value in in being able to do some exploratory scripting without those constraints.
- preseinger 5y agoYes! Exploratory scripting is a categorically different thing than programming, though, I think.
- convolvatron 5y agonot necessarily. there is a bottom up school of thought that encourages people to noodle around and construct primitives by playing in the domain, and then interactively composing those primitives into larger and larger systems.
- preseinger 5y agoYeah, that's true. It's a judgment call for sure, but I've always found that angle on things to be self-subversive. The best programmers I know are all bottom-up learners, not top-down.