Programming In The Abstract Sense Is What

Sometimes, The Elegant Implementation Is Just A Function. Not A Method. Not A Class. Not A Framework. Just A Function.

Rocket Science Has Been Mythologized All Out Of Proportion To Its True Difficulty.

If You're Willing To Restrict The Flexibility Of Your Approach, You Can Almost Always Do Something Better

Sharing The Code Just Seems Like The Right Thing To Do. It Costs Us Rather Little, But It Benefits A Lot Of People In Sometimes Very Significant Ways. There Are Many University Research Projects, Proof Of Concept Publisher Demos, And New Platform Test Beds That Have Leveraged The Code. Free Software That People Value Adds Wealth To The World.

The Idea That I Can Be Presented With A Problem, Set Out To Logically Solve It With The Tools At Hand, And Wind Up With A Program That Could Not Be Legally Used Because Someone Else Followed The Same Logical Steps Some Years Ago And Filed For A Patent On It Is Horrifying.