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A largely empty rant that contradicts its own premise by pointing out that reasoning about code is the same as thinking about code, and that different people th
by vannevar 6y ago
A largely empty rant that contradicts its own premise by pointing out that reasoning about code is the same as thinking about code, and that different people think about code differently. Not exactly an epiphany. If "reasoning about code" was actually a "scam", high level languages would never have emerged. Everyone would still be using assembly for everything, because "[w]e know, for example, that you can basically use any programming language for basically any purpose..."
- brucehoult 6y agoAlso the claim that the choice between Turing-complete languages comes down to "who your CTO plays squash with" is nonsensical. I'm sorry, but I don't care if the vendor is keeping the CTO supplied with hookers and drugs 24/7, I'm still not writing our next product in BrainFuck.