Re:VanJS: A 0.9KB JavaScript UI framework
by earthboundkid on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @07:06PM
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The word dao literally means “road” but by the time of the DDJ, it had come to mean “way of doing something” and “speech that explains how to do something”. Interestingly, in Greek “method” is meta + hodos and hodos means “road” so it’s an etymologically appropriate translation.
Re:VanJS: A 0.9KB JavaScript UI framework
by taoxin on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @07:17PM
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道 (dao) means "the way of doing thing" in modern-day Chinese as well. For instance, 王道 means the "the way of governing". 路 is more common for the literal meaning of "road", though 道 has a meaning of both "road" and "waterway" as well.
1. There might be some universal rules about the world. 2. There are limitations in human's understanding and human language. 3. For all the rules that can be described in human language (which is subject to the limitations in 2), they can't hold universally.
Putting into the context where the words are cited. Any claim (in human language) about programming like "you should program in this way" is most likely not universally sound.
Of course a philosophy book 2000+ years ago can be interpreted in a different way. Happy to see the elaboration of your understanding "No method that can be explained is universally applicable".