alt Hacker News> In practice what I see fail most often is not premature optimization but premature abstraction.
Compare and contrast https://people.mpi-sws.org/~dreyer/tor/papers/wadler.pdf
> In practice what I see fail most often is not premature optimization but premature abstraction.
Compare and contrast https://people.mpi-sws.org/~dreyer/tor/papers/wadler.pdf
Philip Wadler gave us a sound type system. Rob Pike gave us a programming language for stupid people. Each contributed in their own way, towards different goals.