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endgame on Jan 18, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Are we overcomplicating software developme...

I think this is actually a failure in mainstream programming languages, which make it far too easy to reach across what's meant to be a defined subsystem boundary and meddle where you shouldn't.

AstralStorm on Jan 19, 2017 [–]

They also have to weak tools to automate enforcing contracts. Generally the only available tool is "assert".

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