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and I am not writing about popularity, just saying that there are many in an absolute sense (which is honestly the only thing that matters in practice, relying
by jcelerier 4y ago
and I am not writing about popularity, just saying that there are many in an absolute sense (which is honestly the only thing that matters in practice, relying on popularity of things relative to each other in a state of abundance is absolutely stupid)
- ModernMech 4y agoThen I don’t understand your point. The initial claim was that programs are written for human consumption first and foremost. To me, you seem to be replying that programming languages exist that are write only. In that case, agreed. But I don’t see how that is meant to counter the claim that programs are written for humans.
- jcelerier 4y agoI disagree with the "first and foremost" part - more precisely, I don't think it makes any sense to speak about this. There are people whose entire career will be only APL-ish or whatever funky ML-derived dialect, writing programs in a team of 1 and basically converting their thought processes directly into code, and their experience matters exactly as much as the experience of the X million developers in easier / more team/read-oriented languages matters.