I Only Sound Confused Until I'm Positive
I Only Sound Confused Until I'm Positive I didn't know I was going to be addressing this in Awesome Sauce Java. But apparently, being on the inside of a Lisp invites exploration and all that exploration leads to wonder and now I'm standing inside a region of software I never wanted or planned to be, with a possible approach to possibly simplify some complicated things related to packages, with no confidence anybody is going to care. I'm tilting at windmills. Names are a vexing bane in software. Names are confounding in software. Just trying to get this article started has me confused. Maybe a little angry. Packages are great, but they're not, but it's not nice to complain just to complain. Best to point out the why they're great and why they're not, then show how to improve them. Packages are the best. Maybe the best it can possibly be. Whatever packages are? They're a really, really, really, truly difficult hard problem. There may n...