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Exactly. If simplicity were the most important thing, we'd all be writing code in Forth or some sort of macro assembler.
by panic 12y ago
Exactly. If simplicity were the most important thing, we'd all be writing code in Forth or some sort of macro assembler.
- WalterBright 12y agoIt's true that assembler is actually pretty simple. It's just that the simple instructions combine in hard to understand ways.
- xorcist 12y agoYou could have said Lisp instead, and it's not hard to find people making that case. It's a tradeoff between designing your own complex building blocks or having very complex tools with thousands of them ready-made. I won't pretend to have an easy answer, but I do know I personally prefer when people err on the side of simpler tools.