#MelConway
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Application languages and algorithm languages are different creatures. https://www.melconway.com/Home/Inventor.html "The job of a productive application language is not to describe algorithms, but to hide them." -- #MelConway #api360 #progr
I just saw someone found my post from a few months back, linking to Mel Conway's epic 2022 thread on "meme epidemiology". I forgot to add back then that this harks back to subjects explored in Douglas Rushkoff's books Media Virus (1995) and
I seldom reference Titter posts here but this series of posts by Mel Conway is mind blowing and important: https://nitter.net/conways_law/status/1536754353775820800 "Our liberal tradition is no match for the new alliance of very high connec
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