From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Convention for new “guix style“?
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 14:51:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YdNTrDtFXjzBW2RX@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YdNTC5AeYcfKqhhr@jasmine.lan>
On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 02:48:27PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 05:23:22PM +0100, zimoun wrote:
> > Well, I disagree. But yeah, as you said elsewhere 1) the proposal had
> > been done more than 6 months ago so I had time to wake up and raise and
> > 2) let avoid to fall into the Walder’s law; as exposed by the excellent
> > food for thought video [1] you pointed [2].
>
> Can you summarize Walder's law? I don't have time to watch that video.
Never mind, I see that it's Wadler's law:
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In any language design, the total time spent discussing
a feature in this list is proportional to two raised to
the power of its position.
0. Semantics
1. Syntax
2. Lexical syntax
3. Lexical syntax of comments
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-03 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-22 13:05 Convention for new “guix style“? zimoun
2021-12-22 14:10 ` Jelle Licht
2021-12-22 15:52 ` zimoun
2021-12-22 19:24 ` André A. Gomes
2021-12-22 17:23 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-12-22 17:48 ` Andreas Enge
2021-12-22 21:18 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-12-22 21:17 ` indieterminacy
2021-12-23 10:13 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2021-12-22 21:56 ` zimoun
2022-01-03 15:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-01-03 16:23 ` zimoun
2022-01-03 19:48 ` Leo Famulari
2022-01-03 19:51 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2022-01-03 20:05 ` zimoun
2022-01-05 19:16 ` Leo Famulari
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