Short Stuff
“Man’s grasp exceeds his reach or what’s a metaphor?” Paul Dehn Carleton, with apologies to Robert Browning
Paul Graham is another infrequent poster, but again he’s worth paying attention to, even if I only get 10% of what he’s about. What matters here is that Graham’s test for a new programing language is simply ‘shortness’. This resonates with several threads I’ve been trying to tie together: information overload, Twitter, what needs saying, how to say what needs saying so it gets heard, etc. I keep circling around, “Shorter is better.” I do recognize the inherent irony of short posts to long posts, but….
