Manifesto of the Programmer Liberation Front

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by maxwell • 18 years ago

11 7 18 years ago

Ahem: "In Science and Math, formulas are typically one-liners."

really? at what level of maths? I am not entirely sure that programming should move further away from mathematics (when the benefits of functional programming a clearly from moving closer to mathematics).

rw• 18 years ago

Of course! Proof:

Let A = [ ... ]

A is a one-line formula.

michaelneale2• 18 years ago

Right - well I am not sure what he meant, although if he did mean that it makes no sense. From the context I interpreted it to mean mathematical solutions/proofs (maybe I misunderstood).

alexk• 18 years ago

"...one-liners." - especially in Linear Algebra

ivey• 18 years ago

This was published in 2004, and has a note from the author:

This Manifesto is deprecated. My views have evolved, and a new version will be released “real soon now”.

ryanbooker• 18 years ago

Where does this guy think WYSWYG editors come from and what does he think happens under the hood?

david927• 18 years ago

This is really old, and I'm glad to see it's been cleaned-up, in the sense that a lot of the ideas he had that I really disagreed with and thought were actually clumsy are now missing. I'm happy he's saying this and I know many people are working on this exact problem, including some of the people I admire most, such as Alan Kay.

I disagree strongly with one statement: Programming is not Mathematics. I know what he's trying to say, that the View/Controller of the language shouldn't look like mathematical expressions. But the internal model IS mathematics. That's a big difference.

Manifesto of the Programmer Liberation Front

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