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I guess I'm not an everyday programmer then? I want the machine to work for me, not the other way around. I find it absurd when I find programmers actually argu

• nostrademons 7y ago
  I thought the same way when I got out of college, but changed my mind after a decade or so in the industry. What changed could be neatly summed up by this post: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr... Basically, I used to program for the intellectual challenge and the thrill of programming itself. If that's your goal, by all means use Scala or Haskell or Lisp. But at some point that faded, and now I program because somebody has a problem that they will pay me to solve or (for various startup ideas) because I want to understand the market or some data source that has the potential to be worth a lot to a lot of people. For these, my focus is on the problem - the programming is a means to an end for solving the problem, and so anything that lets me spend less brainpower on the programming and more brainpower on the problem domain is a net win.
  • smabie 7y ago
    You can program in Scala just like Java, with both hands tied behind your back if you please. If you can’t restrain yourself and not use free monads or whatever, that’s on you, not the language. I’ve worked on enterprise Scala code bases for a number of years, and no single person on the team would ever switch to Java. In fact, while many of them started as Java devs, many have sworn to never take another Java job in their life.