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>there's no payoff for getting better with the language, and nobody ever really gets up to speed. Or maybe it's an indication that I should spend less time pla
by nemothekid 7y ago
>there's no payoff for getting better with the language, and nobody ever really gets up to speed.
Or maybe it's an indication that I should spend less time playing code golf and more time building what I actually set out to build.
I'd imagine an expert could write a better, performant database than a novice and the fact that can be achieved in language that will effectively communicate to a novice is arguably a good thing.
- erik_seaberg 7y agoNovices should see queues and sorted sets by their proper names. They should see reduce(map(filter(…))), not big loops that inline all three written from scratch repeatedly because experts didn't want the compiler doing work that might make it slower.