Constraints Liberate, Liberties Constrain — Runar Bjarnason

As programmers, we tend to think of expressive power of a language or library as an unmitigated good. In this talk I want to show the contrary; that restraint and precision are usually better than power and flexibility. A constraint on component design leads to freedom and power when putting those components together into systems. What’s more, this feature is built into the very nature of language and reasoning.