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8:33:06
jackdaniel
a very fun video to listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdSD07U5uBs (Alan Kay, 2015: Power of Simplicity)
8:52:08
psilord
DNA only has 4 base pairs! Now that's simple I can respect!
8:52:48
psilord
Or alternatively, "All you need is the value 0, 1, and the NAND operator. Ok, go make Quake!" :)
8:53:36
jackdaniel
actually he touches that: using simpler building blocks often leads to more complex software
8:53:52
jackdaniel
and a slightly more sophisticated abstraction may do a lot for simplicity
8:54:16
jackdaniel
(he uses as an analogy how astrologists were insistent on using circles to model orbits, until Kelper decided to use ellipsis)
8:54:44
psilord
I wish the designers of Go and stuff would have seen this video. :)
8:55:18
psilord
Simple programming languages often require huge amounts of it to do anything really useful.
8:55:42
psilord
(and yes I know who designed Go.)