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    1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 17 Mar 2019

      Hypothesis: If you keep your source code as short as possible, you will in the process reduce it to the "Legos" your idea is comprised of, and when you need to add something, you will usually be able to using those Legos plus at most a few new ones.

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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 17 Mar 2019

      I don't have a very large sample size for this, but it's been true of every program I've written. One reason it's true is that in practice the things you add aren't random. They're related to things you already have, so can share a lot of the same code.

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        1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 17 Mar 2019

          (The reason I said Legos instead of something more concrete like modules is that in the best case the Legos are of many different types: sometimes modules, sometimes libraries, sometimes language features, sometimes how you represent data.)

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        1. Varun Nair‏ @ntkeep 17 Mar 2019
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          The challenge though is in defining and agreeing on what “as short as possible” means in practice.

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        1. Gaurav Singh‏ @gauravontwit 17 Mar 2019
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          That is absolutely true! In fact that is what makes the code scalable and bug free, robust finite units.

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        2. marlo major‏ @marlomajor 17 Mar 2019
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          Where can I go to read some of your source code?

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        3. Xander van der Voort‏ @xvandervoort 17 Mar 2019
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          You should have known this 😀. He wrote The book on Lisp. http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html 

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        1. David Graham (odd/ball)‏ @DavidAGraham 17 Mar 2019
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          Have you heard of http://stackoverflow.com  basically what you are describing. I'm just waiting for someone to make a coding language out of that site.

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        1. Luca Dellanna‏ @DellAnnaLuca 17 Mar 2019
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          Thoughts are modular: they are stored as transitions and associations. Therefore writing “Legos” is natural. Writing a long source code is unnatural. (Anyway the source code is remembered as modules - whether we wrote them or not.)

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        2. atlassubbed‏ @atlassubbed 17 Mar 2019
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          I resonate with this. It was my motivating principle behind Munchlax: https://github.com/atlassubbed/atlas-munchlax … It's a MobX/Meteor.Tracker clone in 20 lines of code using the exact same legos that a VDOM engine uses. Similar algorithms are used in view engines as are used in state management.

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