{"id":390,"date":"2008-01-16T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=390"},"modified":"2008-01-16T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T18:44:00","slug":"390","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting question (after reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artima.com\/weblogs\/viewpost.jsp?thread=222388\">this<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Why does anyone want to write &#8220;large&#8221; programs? Everyone knows large programs are <a href=\"http:\/\/steve-yegge.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/codes-worst-enemy.html\">difficult to build and maintain<\/a>. Want we want is *small* programs that happen to be powerful (do a lot) and scale over large numbers of users. Is there any reason to think that &#8220;large&#8221; program correlates with either of these things?<\/p>\n<p>Supplimentary question. Are 10 programs of 1000 lines each, which have to nevertheless interact (via pipes or XML-RPC calls etc.) actually any easier than one 10000 line program?<\/p>\n<p>Update : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.folknology.com\/\">Folknology<\/a> has been making a pretty decent case for Erlang as a language optimized for writing software as a swarm of small programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting question (after reading this). Why does anyone want to write &#8220;large&#8221; programs? Everyone knows large programs are difficult to build and maintain. Want we want is *small* programs that happen to be powerful (do a lot) and scale over large numbers of users. Is there any reason to think that &#8220;large&#8221; program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[135,354],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-erlang","tag-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}