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		hcs on Feb 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Clean your codebase with basic information theory I've heard the name Intentional Programming applied to this or a similar concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_programming > Tight integration of the environment with the storage format brings some of the nicer features of database normalization to source code. Redundancy is eliminated by giving each definition a unique identity, and storing the name of variables and operators in exactly one place.

valty on Feb 19, 2024 [–]

I think the key is making it feel exactly like writing plain text though with cut/copy/paste and the rest of it...which is kind of hard.

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