The Eternal Return of Abstraction: Why Programming Was Never About Code

The Eternal Return of Abstraction: Why Programming Was Never About Code(generativeai.pub)

15 points by JelteF 159 days ago | 3 comments

whattheheckheck 158 days ago |

Lamports been banging this drum for a while.

Highly recommend seeing how a state machine in C can be converted to TLA+

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/video/videos.html

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/video/video2-script.pdf

6510 159 days ago |

That was a delicious read.

nwhnwh 158 days ago |

> The Stoics talked about the hidden costs of luxury. “Every new thing excites the mind,” Seneca wrote, “but a mind that seeks truth turns from the new and superficial to the old and deep.” Were they talking about LLMs? Obviously not. Were they talking about JavaScript frameworks? Almost certainly.

LOL