[Off topic] Software epigrams

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2013-05-16, F?bio Santos <fabiosantosart at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If I want to bake bread I hope I don't have to till a garden,
>> plant the wheat, harvest the wheat, and grind the wheat. But
>> gardening is relevant to bread baking weather or not I do it.
>
> Then memory management t is relevant to every python program
> even though it's done by the interpreter?

Yes, I think so. If you didn't understand how Python managed
memory, you couldn't write it effectively. You would end up
making unecessary copies, and other pathological programming
practices.

> And in Java we have factories, builders and builderfactories.
> What's so relevant about them? Java is high level, no?

When I tried to pin down what an irrelevant detail in a computer
program could be, I couldn't do it. I guess comment decorations,
maybe? But those would have no bearing on the level of problem
for which a programming language is most appropriate.

-- 
Neil Cerutti