Five nouns for programmers

Five nouns for programmers 5

Posted by Piers Cawley Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:45:00 GMT

Learn ’em. Live by them.

What did I miss? Which ones don’t belong on the list. What am I talking about?

Simon about 3 hours later:

Piers, have you not realized by now that nobody knows what you’re talking about?
Sam Aaron about 11 hours later:
Simon,

absolutely! We can only allude to what he might be meaning. My three words for DSLs (which we all know how much Piers loves) are:
- Readability,
- Succinctness,
- Expressiveness.
Which I think are fairly self explanatory. I also really like Marcel’s three words for beauty¹:
- Proportion,
- Integrity,
- Clarity.
Again, I believe these are fairly self explanatory. On the other hand, whilst Pier’s words look nice, I don’t believe their intentions are that clear (which perhaps defeats their point somewhat).

So Piers, are you going to expand?

¹ http://rubyhoedown2007.confreaks.com/session09.html
Piers Cawley about 16 hours later:

So Piers, are you going to expand?

On my current diet? I hope not, I’m big enough already.
Sam Aaron about 17 hours later:

On my current diet? I hope not, I’m big enough already.

:-)
b 10 days later:

I know what he’s talking about, and I know near-nowt about programming.

But the nouns are good for photography too.

May I add ‘redaction’ ?

I mean this both in the blue-pencil sense, to edit out, and as an slightly different meaning to reification. Selective publishing.