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Stripping a language down to the point we can learn it in a week is a bad tradeoff, because we'll never improve after that. The toolbox will always be empty, be
by erik_seaberg 6y ago
Stripping a language down to the point we can learn it in a week is a bad tradeoff, because we'll never improve after that. The toolbox will always be empty, best treated as a codegen target for abstractions in some more insightful language.
- bird_monster 6y agoThere are plenty of languages that you can go from "Never touched" to "Having contributed something" in a week. Are you saying that those languages aren't productive or valuable?
- erik_seaberg 6y agoA language is productive if it reduces the effort to solve your problems. I think some people feel productive as soon as they're able to solve a problem by cranking out a lot of code, but I view that as the language failing to help them.
- bird_monster 6y agoBest of luck.