{"id":7974,"date":"2013-09-29T12:20:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T17:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7974"},"modified":"2013-09-29T12:20:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T17:20:46","slug":"postmodern-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/29\/postmodern-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"Postmodern Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/robrix\/Postmodern-Programming\/blob\/master\/Postmodern%20Programming.md\">Rob Rix<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/github.com\/robrix\/Postmodern-Programming\/blob\/master\/Postmodern%20Programming.md\"><p>It&rsquo;s no coincidence that this loss of control and gain in precision go hand in hand; they are, in fact, one and the same. As abstraction increases, complexity decreases; and control flow is inherently complex. Specific control flow is the opposite of high abstraction. Per Kowalski, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.ic.ac.uk\/%7Erak\/papers\/algorithm%20=%20logic%20+%20control.pdf\">ALGORITHM = LOGIC + CONTROL<\/a>; and in particular, <em>declarative<\/em> abstractions gradually abstract the control away, replacing it with structure.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/robrix\/Postmodern-Programming\/blob\/master\/Postmodern%20Programming.key\">Keynote version<\/a> is also available.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Rix: It&rsquo;s no coincidence that this loss of control and gain in precision go hand in hand; they are, in fact, one and the same. As abstraction increases, complexity decreases; and control flow is inherently complex. Specific control flow is the opposite of high abstraction. Per Kowalski, ALGORITHM = LOGIC + CONTROL; and in [&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":[69,199,263,46,54,71,341],"class_list":["post-7974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-cocoa","tag-bindings","tag-theory","tag-languagedesign","tag-objective-c","tag-programming","tag-reactivecocoa"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974","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=7974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}