• Codex
    link
    211 year ago

    All code already exists in Plato’s world of perfect abstractions. Programmers merely view this ideal world darkly and scribble what imperfect algorithms they can vaguely remember.

    • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃
      link
      fedilink
      41 year ago

      Stackoverflow is platonism for the masses, a means by which to copy perfect code from “programmers.”

      The “other programmers” are dead. There is no perfect algorithm. And so we must become programmers unto ourselves…