Three Months of Go, from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016)

Re:Three Months of Go, from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016) by ruslan_talpa on Sunday March 19, 2017 @12:11PM (#13907919)

If by clever things you mean "pointfree" all over the place then i agree but if you mean "abstractions" in general then that's a different thing and this says it best.

“The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.”

~ Edsger Dijkstra

I think i can honestly say i did not fully get that quote until i learned Haskell

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Re:Three Months of Go, from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016) by didibus on Sunday March 19, 2017 @01:56PM (#13908610)

Great quote. I think if people think of level of abstraction it makes more sense. All code is an abstract representation, but to solve a problem, it's easier to work within an abstraction level that fits the problem.

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