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Re: The Grug Brained Developer

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Post by jjoonathan »

agentultra wrote: post #16

Ah, the ample club of wishful thinking. There are two general ways of approaching software design (and I'm paraphrasing Tony Hoare here): 1. You can write software so simple there are obviously no errors 2. You can write software so complex there are no obvious errors One thing that escapes "grug" is that achieving 1. often requires more sophistication than their magical club allows. Most well-intentioned "grug" deve…

It will go away -- to other devs, who will awkwardly and painfully route around grug, adding loads of complexity. Not grug's complexity, though!

Re: The Grug Brained Developer

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Post by lijogdfljk »

agentultra wrote: post #16

Ah, the ample club of wishful thinking. There are two general ways of approaching software design (and I'm paraphrasing Tony Hoare here): 1. You can write software so simple there are obviously no errors 2. You can write software so complex there are no obvious errors One thing that escapes "grug" is that achieving 1. often requires more sophistication than their magical club allows. Most well-intentioned "grug" deve…

> Most well-intentioned "grug" developers will write software so simple that it becomes it's own form of complexity: a giant mud-ball of for-loops, while-loops, variable assignments, and other wonderful side effects. Instead of addressing complexity head-on with abstraction, "grug" will beat "galaxy brain" over the head.

Hah. Related, i became disgruntled with my previous favorite language for this reason. It promoted this style of development. Surface level simplicity built into the language, with minimal tools to actually manage the complexity that is inherent to the problem space you're working in.

Re: The Grug Brained Developer

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Post by layer8 »

andrepd wrote: post #3
tines wrote: post #2

As a grug-brained developer, I love the spirit of this, but it's kinda hard to read. Maybe the author can publish an English translation? :)

grug think grugposting is part of the charm

Grug thinks there would be middle course keeping most of charm but less exhausting to read.

Re: The Grug Brained Developer

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Post by bitwize »

tines wrote: post #2

As a grug-brained developer, I love the spirit of this, but it's kinda hard to read. Maybe the author can publish an English translation? :)

This reminds me rather of a cross between "Code Monkey" (Jonathan Coulton song) and Film Crit Hulk Smash.

Re: The Grug Brained Developer

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Post by kazinator »

agentultra wrote: post #16

Ah, the ample club of wishful thinking. There are two general ways of approaching software design (and I'm paraphrasing Tony Hoare here): 1. You can write software so simple there are obviously no errors 2. You can write software so complex there are no obvious errors One thing that escapes "grug" is that achieving 1. often requires more sophistication than their magical club allows. Most well-intentioned "grug" deve…

Software in category (1) and (2) can be of any relative size.

1 could be 50,000 lines, 2 could be 500.

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