Hacker News Reader

Comment by rsc | Hacker News Reader

At that point you could even use different languages. Maybe you like programs that look like Lisp and I don't. There was a project at Microsoft Research in the late 1990s/early 2000s that did exactly this - storing ASTs in source control instead of code - but the name escapes me at the moment.

View on HN

That's a fascinating idea, but I wonder if code written in Go or similar language would make for some gargantuan and awful-to-read Lisp, and possibly vice-versa (Go with a ton of functions that are all only a few lines long. Sounds ok to me, but very different from any Go code I've worked on that I didn't write :-D).

Was it Intentional programming? I remember it being described as something similar to what you say, but the Wikipedia shows something slightly different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_programming

Quick 10 min into Googling, def. double check me:

You're right, ex. https://dev.to/jillesvangurp/comment/6gnb/

Sadly there's enough bitrot that ex. intentsoft.com is offline.

More here, but article is v opinionated/judgement oriented, comments are useful, but again, bitrot :( https://wiki.c2.com/?IntentionalProgramming

It strikes me that what I am describing as "bitrot" may also be "never really shipped, so the vagueness isn't accidental"

Hat tip for c2.com link! The follow-up is savage: https://wiki.c2.com/?CritiqueOfIntentionalProgramming

Reply on news.ycombinator.com