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Parse, Don't Validate (2019)

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389 points melse | 1 comments | 26 Jun 21 07:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.575s | source
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ukj ◴[26 Jun 21 07:47 UTC] No.27639995[source]▶
Software Engineers: Parse, don't validate.

Mathematicians: Parsing is validation

https://gallais.github.io/pdf/draft_sigbovik21.pdf

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Drup ◴[26 Jun 21 08:41 UTC] No.27640235[source]▶
To everyone in this subthread: sigbovik is a conference published every 1st of April.

This paper is an April's fool joke. I didn't think people could take that one seriously. I guess it's a good April's fool then. :)

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rualca ◴[26 Jun 21 09:47 UTC] No.27640542[source]▶
The wide adoption of Flask as Python's backend development framework of choice makes it quite clear that software developers have a hard time picking up April fool's jokes.
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1. 411111111111111 ◴[26 Jun 21 10:00 UTC] No.27640602[source]▶
Or how great April fool's ideas can actually be if they turn out to be real