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If you’re creating the language, i totally see the value but If you’re just a user of a given language then there’s always going to be more value to be extracte
by CraigJPerry 4y ago
If you’re creating the language, i totally see the value but If you’re just a user of a given language then there’s always going to be more value to be extracted from advancing your knowledge of computation instead of any one lang.
If your business is trying to solve hard problem X and your best idea is to use this tricky advanced language feature and then apply these compiler flags… then you’re going to lose to the person who knows of a programming paradigm (e.g. logic programming) unlocking a simpler solution or a data structure unlocking a more performant solution.
That sounds a bit abstract. To make it more concrete - imagine a problem where you need to apply a function in concurrent windows over a time series but you’ve never experienced any of the array programming languages.