English Explanatory Dictionary

Blub paradox

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. The situation where a programmer sees less powerful programming languages than those he/she knows as lacking in important features, but more powerful ones as having bizarre or unnecessary features.

Word forms

Blub paradox the Blub paradox

Etymology

Coined by Paul Graham, who used a hypothetical programming language called Blub as an example.

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