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David Beazley

IDEs reduce code complexity much in the same way that a highway reduces traffic.

12 Oct 2023 at 11:50 | Open on mastodon.social
12 comments
Offbeatmammal

@dabeaz I started my career with 6502 and then 68000 assembler... Now there are so many layers of abstraction I have no idea what the target platform gets fed (flipside is people don't get hurt if the code I write these days has an error, because a pretty graph has less risk area than a traffic light controller!)

12 Oct 2023 at 12:29 | Open on mastodon.social
Adirondack :toad:
Lightning Bjornsson
@dabeaz I just use a text editor and a makefile
12 Oct 2023 at 14:25 | Open on bv.umbrellix.org
ɗ𐐩ʃƕρʋ

@dabeaz I keep hitting the "boost" button, but it only boosts once.

12 Oct 2023 at 14:34 | Open on fosstodon.org
David Beazley

@deshipu Boosting never should have been idempotent.

12 Oct 2023 at 14:43 | Open on mastodon.social
Nafiul Islam

@dabeaz i don’t think they ever claimed to reduce code complexity.

12 Oct 2023 at 17:01 | Open on fosstodon.org
Keelan

@nafiul @dabeaz we’re comparing outcomes, not claims.

12 Oct 2023 at 21:51 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org
DELETED

@dabeaz IDEs are like cutlery: eating without works and in some cultures this is the default. but some people make a smaller mess with knife and fork than with bare hands.

12 Oct 2023 at 17:56 | Open on octodon.social
Ashok Argent–Katwala

@dabeaz We’ve been loosening our belts to cure software obesity for decades now.

(With apologies to Mumford; sorry I can’t find a solid reference to his New Yorker article from 1955.)

12 Oct 2023 at 22:04 | Open on mstdn.ca
Robert Brewer
David Beazley

@fumanchu "Types, not typing" would be an interesting thing to put on a T-shirt I think.

13 Oct 2023 at 0:07 | Open on mastodon.social
Richard Bown

@dabeaz they have the ability to reduce complexity but that's very much up to the driver

13 Oct 2023 at 4:44 | Open on mastodon.social
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