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Manifesto of the Programmer Liberation Front
- michaelneale 18y agoAhem: "In Science and Math, formulas are typically one-liners." really? at what level of maths? I am not entirely sure that programming should move further away from mathematics (when the benefits of functional programming a clearly from moving closer to mathematics).
- rw 18y agoOf course! Proof: Let A = [ ... ] A is a one-line formula.
- michaelneale 18y agoRight - well I am not sure what he meant, although if he did mean that it makes no sense. From the context I interpreted it to mean mathematical solutions/proofs (maybe I misunderstood).
- alexk 18y ago"...one-liners." - especially in Linear Algebra
- ivey 18y agoThis was published in 2004, and has a note from the author: This Manifesto is deprecated. My views have evolved, and a new version will be released “real soon now”.
- ryanbooker 18y agoWhere does this guy think WYSWYG editors come from and what does he think happens under the hood?
- david927 18y agoThis is really old, and I'm glad to see it's been cleaned-up, in the sense that a lot of the ideas he had that I really disagreed with and thought were actually clumsy are now missing. I'm happy he's saying this and I know many people are working on this exact problem, including some of the people I admire most, such as Alan Kay. I disagree strongly with one statement: Programming is not Mathematics. I know what he's trying to say, that the View/Controller of the language shouldn't look like mathematical expressions. But the internal model IS mathematics. That's a big difference.