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It was from an era of 110 baud teletypes. Thus, brevity was of extreme importance.
by narrator 4y ago
It was from an era of 110 baud teletypes. Thus, brevity was of extreme importance.
- avmich 4y agoI had a problem in 2000-s when we needed to put some code into data files, and that code had to be short. So, when space was at premium, APL approach was rather convenient - even though it was already time of Skype and some video over the Internet.
- hoosieree 4y agoBrevity is more important today. The more thoughts you can fit on a page, the less taxing it is for your working memory. We try to use abstraction - libraries, DSLs, even lowly functions - to tame ever more complex problems, but anyone who's had to debug a dependency of a dependency is painfully aware of the cost of leaky abstractions.