On Preventing Programming Languages from Interfering with Programming (1975) [pdf]

https://breckyunits.com/files/mckeeman1975.pdf

by breck • 7 years ago

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dukoid• 7 years ago

Today we seem to need "on preventing frameworks from interfering with Programming"

sombremesa• 7 years ago

All we'll ever need is "on preventing programmers from interfering with programming."

exikyut• 7 years ago

And maybe "preventing programming from interfering with frameworks", when the (immaturity|bureaucracy|brittleness) is too high

AzzieElbab• 7 years ago

https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode

No interference whatsoever

dogdawg• 7 years ago

What you program it's top down. So every level of the stack effects everything below. Interestingly things below can also hotpatch things above as needed by developers. Simply ship the patch upstream or monkey patch it yourself and publish the github repo with your patch.

sjakobi• 7 years ago

This sounds similar to the process used for some parts of Cardano. Duncan Coutts talked about this in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZGVgNsJSnA

NohatCoder• 7 years ago

First we assume that our program needs to solve a well defined mathematical problem. Then we realise that that has nothing to do with any relevant programming problem.

On Preventing Programming Languages from Interfering with Programming (1975) [pdf]

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