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So, to maintain your project, it's not sufficient for me to know language X -- I also have to learn a bunch of domain-specific sub-languages, which any develope

by kiitos 3y ago

So, to maintain your project, it's not sufficient for me to know language X -- I also have to learn a bunch of domain-specific sub-languages, which any developer on the project may have implemented in response to an arbitrary problem, which almost certainly has no kind of formal specification or stability guarantee, and which can change over time in any way without warning? No sir.

CuriouslyC 3y ago
"So, to maintain your project, it's not sufficient for me to know language X -- I also have to learn a bunch of functions, and understand the business processes that are used to create the abstractions, and trust code from my coworkers with just unit tests and type checking? No sir."
- kiitos 3y ago
  It seems like you're equivocating language-level concepts like syntax, semantics, grammar, etc. with program-level concepts like types, functions, names, etc. But these are two categorically different things.