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Re:Suffering-oriented programming (2012) by watwut on Thursday September 06, 2018 @02:33AM (#17924287)
After working with people who refuse any kind of tiny little abstraction because "abstractions are complicated" and "even splitting it into named functions is step toward being like java", it is no better.

It was high in repetition and whenever you changed something, you had to not forget five places. It was also hard to get the big picture of what was supposed to happen.

There is such a thing as too little abstraction as much as there is too much abstraction.

Re:Suffering-oriented programming (2012) by rabidrat on Thursday September 06, 2018 @03:53AM (#17924595)
Forth is great. It takes both DRY and JIT abstraction to the extreme. Developing software is creating a DSL with a custom vocabulary for the problem space being solved.
Re:Suffering-oriented programming (2012) by feliksik on Saturday September 08, 2018 @01:41AM (#17939600)
Did those happen to be Go developers? Just curious.

Interesting language, but some peculiar fanboys.