Or multi-methods / multiple dispatch? On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Steve Dekorte <st...@dekorte.com> wrote:
> It seems as if each computing culture fails to establish a measure for it's > own goals which leaves it with no means of critically analyzing it's > assumptions resulting in the technical equivalent of religious dogma. From > this perspective, new technical cultures are more like religious reform > movements than new scientific theories which are measured by agreement with > experiment. e.g. had the Smalltalk community said "if it can reduce the > overall code >X without a performance cost >Y" it's better, perhaps > prototypes would have been adopted long ago. > -- -Brian T. Rice
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