> before that in the 90's there was a group of programmers that liked to generate code until no colleague understood anymore what was happening.
Ah! Just write a quine and be done with it!
> I have seen more projects fail because of too much unneeded abstraction than by all other causes together. I even have seen companies go almost bankrupt because of projects engineered by lone wolfs where nobody understood the abstractions anymore except for the designer himself, and at some point he himself not really anymore either.
"cake pattern" on one side and scalatest on the other.
As for
> I’m constantly surprised to see this type anti-intellectualism.
You hardly need any Category Theory to theory to understand type theory or mostly important Scala's type system. This the exact knowledge and allows you use it effectively. Yeah, the way he puts it makes those who like to understand the theory behind everything look bad.
Ah! Just write a quine and be done with it!
> I have seen more projects fail because of too much unneeded abstraction than by all other causes together. I even have seen companies go almost bankrupt because of projects engineered by lone wolfs where nobody understood the abstractions anymore except for the designer himself, and at some point he himself not really anymore either.
"cake pattern" on one side and scalatest on the other.
As for
> I’m constantly surprised to see this type anti-intellectualism.
You hardly need any Category Theory to theory to understand type theory or mostly important Scala's type system. This the exact knowledge and allows you use it effectively. Yeah, the way he puts it makes those who like to understand the theory behind everything look bad.