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The language syntax is often pretty small for most programming languages, but the vocabulary (libraries) are often enormous. Most professional programmers prog
by bane 8y ago
The language syntax is often pretty small for most programming languages, but the vocabulary (libraries) are often enormous.
Most professional programmers program as if they were speaking with a dictionary and thesaurus at hand and stopped in the middle of every sentence to look up a work or usage.
- airstrike 8y ago> Most professional programmers program as if they were speaking with a dictionary and thesaurus at hand and stopped in the middle of every sentence to look up a work or usage. Which is probably why code that feels like you're reading prose is hard to come by