Talmudic Sabbath Law as API Design: 'Boundary Could Be a String, No Size Limit'
kovasb · x · 2026-09-03
A circulating quip that reads Jewish Sabbath law (and its eruv boundary mechanism) as an API design lesson: the text only hints that "the boundary could be a string" without specifying an absolute size — and the joke is that this is precisely the designer's intent: if the hints are given, you're meant to use them. A classic programmer-culture meme of interpreting ancient law as software design philosophy.
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