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> but "zero cost abstractions" implies, well, that you're crawling _up_ the abstraction pyramid, not lost in twisty little side passages The zero cost refers t
by Aurornis 11mo ago
> but "zero cost abstractions" implies, well, that you're crawling _up_ the abstraction pyramid, not lost in twisty little side passages
The zero cost refers to the runtime cost, not the programming complexity.
- kelseyfrog 11mo agoWhat's a language with zero complexity-cost abstractions?
- eptcyka 11mo agoNatural language. It's a language interpreted by LLMs. It is really high level.
- bigstrat2003 11mo agoEven that has lots and lots of abstractions which add complexity. For example, figures of speech such as "shooting fish in a barrel".
- saghm 11mo agoIf anything, the fact that it's hard to come up with an example of a language like this is even more evidence that this probably isn't what anyone has ever meant by that term.
- cyco130 11mo agoNatural languages are much more complex. Complex for humans: I can learn a new programming language in an afternoon and be reasonably productive in it within a week or two. I wish I could say the same for natural languages. Complex for computers: We’ve had good compilers since the 50s. Satisfactory language models are less than five years old.