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Programming Bottom-Up (1993)
(This essay is from the introduction to On Lisp .) It's a long-standing principle of programming style that the functional elements of a program should not be too large. If some component of a program grows beyond the stage where it's readily comprehensible, it becomes a mass of complexity which conceals errors as…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Apr 26, 2018 | Programming Bottom-Up (1993) by ibobev | 127 | 64 |
| Dec 7, 2023 | Programming Bottom-Up (1993) by tzury | 75 | 33 |
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