Re:The Costs of Programming Language Fragmentation
by burntsushi on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @11:59AM
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It sounds interesting, but I don't really agree with the idea that we can analogize software development with socio-political organization. There are certainly a lot of interesting similarities, but I would be super careful about drawing any conclusions from it.
But first you have to obtain absolute top down control in order to do so.
Very similar to how command-and-control politics schemes could be in theory more efficient than messy democracies, but those messy democracies, while inefficient, produce variety that guard against the much larger errors of mis-allocation, ineptitude, or corruption.
Also the person with the vision of absolute top down control typically selects their vision as the correct one. If only we implemented my vision, since it is the correct one.
If we did what the OP suggests we'd be communicating with CORBA across the net, have artifacts such as "car" and "cdr" x10.