Developing GHC for a Living

Re:Developing GHC for a Living by _bxg1 on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:33PM (#22195238)

All I'm saying is that literal perfection is an asymptote. It's well and fine (great, even) to try and move towards it, but a person will be both happier and more productive once they accept that it's ultimately unreachable.

I don't know anything about the author; maybe he was being hyperbolic when he used the word "perfect" (though it didn't sound like it). I was just taking the opportunity to point out a lesson that I've learned.

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Re:Developing GHC for a Living by Ericson2314 on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:39PM (#22195295)

I think "perfection" is understood to be a limit or non-unique. But where we are with tooling today, industry wide, is so completely abysmal that I don't think the behavior of shooting for absolute perfection or something in reach is that different.

Words like yours implies we are "good enough" and anything better is "too costly", and I don't think that is remotely true.

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Re:Developing GHC for a Living by _bxg1 on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:45PM (#22195360)

That was not my intent.

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Re:Developing GHC for a Living by Ericson2314 on Friday January 31, 2020 @12:58PM (#22203797)

Glad to be wrong, then.

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Re:Developing GHC for a Living by JoelMcCracken on Friday January 31, 2020 @09:29AM (#22201905)

what did you think he meant by referring to "Pareto principle"? did you not know and just decide to not look it up?

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