What seems most wrong about @richhickey's thesis is that great API design often resides in what isn't there. http://blog.ezyang.com/2016/12/thoughts-about-spec-ulation-rich-hickey/ …
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Replying to @yminsky
Was there but now isn't != never was there. No better way to keep cruft out than to know you'll have to live with it.
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Replying to @richhickey
but in a monorepo workflow, you really can remove old things!
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and keeping the current world simpler than the sum of all things that ever existed seems hugely valuable...
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"... programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing" - Perlis
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Replying to @richhickey @yminsky
I think the full epigram is: “A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.” ;-)
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True, but the malady is now widespread :)
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