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Letting Go of Control Didier Verna Letting Go of Control Part 2/2 Season Finale Didier Verna 1/8 Previously in: Letting go of control. . . Letting Go of Control Our software was out of control Didier Verna This was only going to get

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Letting Go of Control Didier Verna

Letting Go of Control

Part 2/2 Season Finale Didier Verna

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Previously in: “Letting go of control”. . . Our software was out of control This was only going to get worse We were afraid We were ashamed

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But today, everything’s going to be fine Our software behave like biological realms Biological organisms are autonomous

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But today, everything’s going to be fine Our software behave like biological realms Biological organisms are autonomous

Our software needs to be autonomous!

We should not control it We should give it the means to control itself instead

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What you don’t know about GC The recursive definition of differentiation made no provision for erasure of abandoned list structure. No solution was apparent at the time, but the idea of complicating the elegant definition of differentiation with explicit erasure was unattractive. – John McCarthy (1978)

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The rules of good parenthood

1 Don’t be too possessive

Don’t control everything

2 Let the teenage crisis pass

Bugs and errors are good!

3 Help your software grow an adult

Give it free will

4 Use Lisp

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Letting Go of Control Didier Verna

The rules of good parenthood

1 Don’t be too possessive

Don’t control everything

2 Let the teenage crisis pass

Bugs and errors are good!

3 Help your software grow an adult

Give it free will

4 Use Lisp

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Letting Go of Control Didier Verna

The rules of good parenthood

1 Don’t be too possessive

Don’t control everything

2 Let the teenage crisis pass

Bugs and errors are good!

3 Help your software grow an adult

Give it free will

4 Use Lisp

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Letting Go of Control Didier Verna

The rules of good parenthood

1 Don’t be too possessive

Don’t control everything

2 Let the teenage crisis pass

Bugs and errors are good!

3 Help your software grow an adult

Give it free will

4 Use Lisp

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Letting Go of Control Didier Verna

The rules of good parenthood

1 Don’t be too possessive

Don’t control everything

2 Let the teenage crisis pass

Bugs and errors are good!

3 Help your software grow an adult

Give it free will

4 Use Lisp

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We would not be afraid anymore. . .

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We would not be ashamed anymore. . .

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We could be proud. . .

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