{"id":16676,"date":"2016-12-20T10:37:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T15:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=16676"},"modified":"2016-12-20T10:37:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T15:37:02","slug":"stroustrups-rule-and-layering-over-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/20\/stroustrups-rule-and-layering-over-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Stroustrup&rsquo;s Rule and Layering Over Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefeedbackloop.xyz\/stroustrups-rule-and-layering-over-time\/\">Dave Herman<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/lambda-the-ultimate.org\/node\/5402\">Ehud Lamm<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/thefeedbackloop.xyz\/stroustrups-rule-and-layering-over-time\/\">\n<p>One of my favorite insights about syntax design appeared in a <a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Events\/Lang-NEXT\/Lang-NEXT-2014\/Keynote\">retrospective on C++<\/a> by Bjarne Stroustrup:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n  <ul>\n  <li>For new features, people insist on <em>loud<\/em> explicit syntax.<\/li>\n  <li>For established features, people want terse notation.<\/li>\n  <\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I call this <em>Stroustrup&rsquo;s Rule<\/em>. Part of what I love about his observation is that it acknowledges that design takes place over time, and that the audience it addresses evolves. Software is for people and people grow.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Herman (via Ehud Lamm): One of my favorite insights about syntax design appeared in a retrospective on C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup: For new features, people insist on loud explicit syntax. For established features, people want terse notation. I call this Stroustrup&rsquo;s Rule. Part of what I love about his observation is that it acknowledges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[326,295,46,71,408],"class_list":["post-16676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-c-plus-plus","tag-history","tag-languagedesign","tag-programming","tag-rust-lang"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16677,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16676\/revisions\/16677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}