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Brainfuck is not an example, its a strawman. If it was meant to be a joke, it sucks. I really don't understand the automatic genuflection that lisp/forth/small
by smackeyacky 6y ago
Brainfuck is not an example, its a strawman. If it was meant to be a joke, it sucks.
I really don't understand the automatic genuflection that lisp/forth/smalltalk get on HN. You can't make a bad programmer better by switching out the language.
I am guessing HN skews younger and never had to build boring production systems in these failures (note: my professional experience was years of fighting smalltalk).
For the vast majority of programming tasks, boring old java or c# or python have enough language features of the holy trinity now that smugly announcing to the world you are a clojure exclusive geek is a huge red flag.
- kazinator 6y ago> You can't make a bad programmer better by switching out the language Right; good programmer, though, another story. > boring old java or c# or python Many programmers using these were switched to them from something else, and in many cases are doing better work because of that.
- smackeyacky 6y agoIf they moved on from lisp I'm 100% sure they are now able to do better work, largely because they no longer have to spend their days telling everybody they are a lisp programmer.