• Codex
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    212 years 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
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      42 years 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…