Re:Functions Should Be Short And Sweet, But Why?
by TeMPOraL on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @05:54AM
(#7101912)
Right to the heart of matter.
This is something Abelson & Sussman were trying to teach us in the 80-s (stacking abstractions-as-languages on top of each other is one of the main themes of SICP). Unfortunately this insight got somehow lost in between people parroting design patterns and repeating things without understanding them (programming pop-culture?). I've personally seen only a handful of programmers who know of this concept, and even less of folks who understand it.
This is something Abelson & Sussman were trying to teach us in the 80-s (stacking abstractions-as-languages on top of each other is one of the main themes of SICP). Unfortunately this insight got somehow lost in between people parroting design patterns and repeating things without understanding them (programming pop-culture?). I've personally seen only a handful of programmers who know of this concept, and even less of folks who understand it.