Parsimony Principles for Software Components and Metalanguages · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/0707.4166/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTParsimony Principles for Software Components and Metalanguages — mentioned by amboo7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21606916urn:hackerpapers:mention:0707.4166:21606916Fri, 22 Nov 2019 16:17:10 GMT<p>https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.4166 is nice</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/0707.4166/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.SEParsimony Principles for Software Components and Metalanguages — mentioned by thechaohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9089861urn:hackerpapers:mention:0707.4166:9089861Sun, 22 Feb 2015 16:29:36 GMT<p>&gt; but adding a map function on Vector would have not prevented this more sophisticated use. This was questioned, long ago, by Todd Veldhuizen in his Parsimony Principle paper[1]. The long-and-short of which is: do it! [1] http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.4166</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/0707.4166/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.SE