{"id":1229,"date":"2016-04-01T21:16:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T19:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2016-04-01T10:17:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T08:17:24","slug":"minimal-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2016\/04\/01\/minimal-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimal Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Such an interesting site this <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minimalprogramming.org\/vision.html\">Minimal Programming.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Feels old school, written by proficient people!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Therefore, minimal programming means<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>minimal code:<\/em> no code duplication<\/li>\n<li><em>maximal expressiveness:<\/em> readable code that directly reflects the underlying task<\/li>\n<li><em>minimal overlap:<\/em> every piece of information can be found in exactly one place<\/li>\n<li><em>maximal orthogonality:<\/em> clear separation of concerns (dimensions)<\/li>\n<li><em>adequate complexity:<\/em> complexity of the program proportional to the complexity of the task<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I found it looking for previous design about expanded iterator pattern for Eiffel.<\/p>\n<p>Truly old school, written using &#8220;Modular DocBook HTML&#8221; has a nice section of &#8220;Programming Languages at a Glance&#8221; regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minimalprogramming.org\/html\/chapter.eiffel.html\">Eiffel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I shall re-read this a couple of times to grasp his writing style: it&#8217;s so effective! Concise but informative, terse and rich at the same time&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Such an interesting site this Minimal Programming. Feels old school, written by proficient people!<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2016\/04\/01\/minimal-programming\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[72,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentations","category-eiffel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6daft-jP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13371,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2025\/05\/16\/saturating-the-name-space\/","url_meta":{"origin":1229,"position":0},"title":"Saturating the name-space","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2025-05-16","format":false,"excerpt":"We are saturating the name space for programming languages. 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