Re:A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf]
by marcosdumay on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @10:44AM
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> the type system is just in the way
That's an usual symptom that you are trying to write untyped code in a typed language.
There are few cases where types do get in the way, but in the huge majority of the cases the types are there for you to explore your ideas on them first, and only mess with the code once they make sense.
That's an usual symptom that you are trying to write untyped code in a typed language.
There are few cases where types do get in the way, but in the huge majority of the cases the types are there for you to explore your ideas on them first, and only mess with the code once they make sense.