🚨 Breaking news: Decades of programming wisdom have officially been deemed misdirection 🚨 Paul Tarvydas has cracked the code, folks! Turns out we've been using type checking as a security blanket to hide our architectural shame 🙈. Who knew all those fancy algorithms were just smoke and mirrors? 🤡
https://programmingsimplicity.substack.com/p/type-checking-is-a-symptom-not-a #programmingwisdom #typechecking #architecturalshame #securityflaw #codingrevolution #HackerNews #ngated
Type Checking is a Symptom, Not a Solution

2025-08-31

Paul’s Substack
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." – Harold Abelson
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All Models Are Wrong (with James Gayfer) | Dead Code

Just because it's easy to understand doesn't mean it was easy to write. In fact, the easier it is to understand, the harder it probably was to write. #programming #programmingwisdom
Simple code is hard to write. #programming #programmingwisdom
All computers wait at the same speed. #programming #ProgrammingWisdom
"What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months." — Fred Brooks
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Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
- Eric Raymond

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The „Short Blanket Situation“ in SW development. You fix one thing, another thing breaks. You fix the other thing and then the next thing breaks. Repeat.

No matter what you do, the blanket is too short and can only warm your feet or your arms.

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