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problynoughtyesterday at 11:29 PM1 replyview on HN

All programming achieves the same outcome; requests the OS/machine set aside some memory to hold salient values and mutate those values in-line with mathematical recipe.

Functions like:

updatesUsername(string) returns result

...can be turned into generic functional euphemism

takeStringRtnBool(string) returns bool

...same thing. context can be established by the data passed in, external system interactions (updates user values, inventory of widgets)

as workers SWEs are just obfuscating how repetitive their effort is to people who don't know better

the era of pure data driven systems is arrived. in-line with the push to dump OOP we're dumping irrelevant context in the code altogether: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-driven_programming


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