Re:Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become Smart (2024)
by Joel_Mckay on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @05:50AM
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Conways Law tends to manifest in both directions...
It may be profitable having systems only a few people in the world could understand, but the scope of development is constrained.
I respect your opinion, but also recognize languages like Forth/Fortran actually killed people with 1 character syntax errors. People need to be as unsurprising as possible on large team projects. Sure, all our arrays today could be written in only l's , I's, and 1's like lIl1Il1lI[I1lI11l]... and being a CEO is also still not a valid excuse. =3
It may be profitable having systems only a few people in the world could understand, but the scope of development is constrained.
I respect your opinion, but also recognize languages like Forth/Fortran actually killed people with 1 character syntax errors. People need to be as unsurprising as possible on large team projects. Sure, all our arrays today could be written in only l's , I's, and 1's like lIl1Il1lI[I1lI11l]... and being a CEO is also still not a valid excuse. =3