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A Flock of Functions: Lambda Calculus and Combinatory Logic in JavaScript | Gabriel Lebec @ DevTalks
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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this video.Rich Hickey - Hammock-driven development: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBcBrett Victor - Inventing on principle: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8QiPFmIMxFc
Programming is terrible: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c
Dave Beazely - Python concurrency from the ground up (applicable to languages in general, with generator and corourine functionality) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MCs5OvhV9S4
Functional programming, with birds: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6BnVo7EHO_8&t=1009s
Short and classic: Wat https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
⬐ mikewarot>Brett Victor - Inventing on principle: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8QiPFmIMxFcThis gave me a sharp moment of clarity, thank you so much for this!
I'll work on the wording over time, but here's a rough sketch of my principle:
My principle is that no person should ever be forced to blindly trust a computer to do the right thing. Computing shouldn't be either blindly trust the black box, or get nothing done.
Nobody should have to hand over their wallet to buy an ice cream cone, you can just take the exact change out and pay. Why should you have to give a program access to everything when you just want to edit one text file?
Here's one great introduction - A Flock of Functions: Lambda Calculus and Combinatory Logic in JavaScript | Gabriel Lebec @ DevTalks