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Comment by hawkice | original | Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)
[−]hawkice · 2026-11-15 Sun 17:02 UTC · link
This was my intended meaning -- the clearest advocacy of this was from DHH about Ruby on Rails, although he's changed his mind about big questions lately and suspect he no longer endorses that set of trade-offs (I don't either, _sort of_ -- I think developer productivity means having simple ways to enable large-scale testing and oversight while minimizing context switching costs, although I think we are all figuring out what that means in practice).