Exploring Limitations and Trade-Offs in Tools and Programming Languages
By
todsacerdoti
The bagel they save for the regulars. Don't skim, savour.
Summary
The article discusses the concept of being limited by tools and programs, emphasizing the constraints and trade-offs involved in using different tools and programming languages. It touches on the idea of trapped data within programs and the challenges of switching between tools.
Key quotes
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Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can. —Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment
most tools simultaneously think too small and too big. “i will let you do anything!”, they promise, “as long as you give up your other tools and switch to me!”
this is true of languages too. any new programming language makes an implicit claim that “using this language will give you an advantage over any other language”, a
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