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Over the decades, I’ve seen the common practices around creating functions change quite a bit.

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[–] mspencer712@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There’s a lot of “And then for some reason we did this, and it was more complexity” in this paper. I think that’s missing the point of languages, as a conversion layer between machine code and weird, squishy human brains. We think better, hold abstractions in our minds better, when the language maps more closely with how we’re structuring the problem in our minds.

Not sure if you were even looking for paper reviews.

[–] codeinabox@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Not sure if you were even looking for paper reviews.

I didn't write the article, I just shared it because I thought it was interesting.