Re:We need less powerful languages (2015)
by kelipso on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @09:20PM
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Haha, brainfuck is simple and only has five features that everyone knows but...there's going to be a decent number of patterns you'll have to memorize.
Re:We need less powerful languages (2015)
by hinkley on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @10:35PM
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As someone who's spent a thousand hours or so thinking about the board game Go, I'm quite familiar with the idea of simple rules with an explosion of consequences.
Unfortunately I'm also familiar with the consequences in software. Fractal code sounds like it might be cool until you have to edit it, especially if it's someone else's. This is the domain of madmen.
You have to be careful here because people will give you/expect emergent behavior to pick up the slack, and then you get a language that has barely any syntax or semantics and all of the functionality comes from stringing a bunch of NewSpeak-looking bullshit together into a system that would make Rube Goldberg suicidal.
As simple as possible, but no simpler.