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""Primitive" seems like the wrong word to apply" Painful, ugly, unpleasant?

• heresie-dabord 4y ago
  I guess you would admit that beauty is subjective. Beauty in tooling is an even more rarefied discussion. Code that we might deem "beautiful" may not even compile. ^_^ Does the tool do what it needs to do without getting fussy, gobbling RAM, and requiring a small army of maintainers to feed the monster? There is most definitely a place in technology for that kind of sanity. There is something to be said for a design that doesn't bring with it a brigade of Opinions-As-A-Service proponents. Any non-trivial notation is going to require learning. There is absolute value in learning. I think of many flexible and effective notations in tooling that has literally been the foundation of modern computing. Maybe we are in the age of the Mono-Notation Luxury Coder. ^_^