[HN Gopher] The Joy of Limitations: Writing an ARexx REPL in ARe...
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       The Joy of Limitations: Writing an ARexx REPL in ARexx (2021)
        
       Author : doener
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2022-10-14 08:59 UTC (14 hours ago)
        
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       | nuc1e0n wrote:
       | I often think Art in general suffers from a lack of limitations
       | now as well. Artists working with oil paints during the
       | renaissance had teams of people to produce their often secret
       | recipes for pigments or to fill in less prominent areas of works
       | on behalf of their master.
       | 
       | Now anyone can buy chemical based paints of any colour imaginable
       | with ease or cheap, mass produced and pre-prepared canvases. If
       | the materials themselves are no longer precious it's easier to
       | not take the same degree of care on painting.
        
         | foobarian wrote:
         | So what you are saying is... there still are teams of people
         | producing paints with, for all intents and purposes, secret
         | recipes, except now they don't help you paint the tedious
         | parts. So arguably it should be harder to paint :-)
         | 
         | A lot more people have the opportunity to do it, though. You
         | don't need to be a pauper living on your brother's dime, and in
         | fact there are materials of unimaginable quality available for
         | a few dollars on the low end.
        
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