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Haskell, Julia, Rust, Lisp, and Forth are 'esoteric' enough to create an in-crowd, who are quite often deluded by imagined miraculous solutions to people's prob
by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago
Haskell, Julia, Rust, Lisp, and Forth are 'esoteric' enough to create an in-crowd, who are quite often deluded by imagined miraculous solutions to people's problems.
Please repeat after Fred Brooks: there ain't no silver bullet.
To a certain extent this goes on outside programming languages per se: OOP, Gang of Four, Agile match the pattern as well.
- splistud 4y ago[dead]
- bear8642 4y agoFeel APL similar in-crowd member too, though perhaps even more niche
- throwawaybutwhy 4y agoYup. Also HolyC (literally a religious undertaking), but the crowd had only one person, and he is no longer with us.
- moloch-hai 4y agoWent to a better place, one hopes. Maybe one where he is appreciated, and not considered mad.
- moloch-hai 4y agoThe "in-crowd" vibe is very different from religion. We admire a language for its strengths, but worship it for its faults. APL is beginning to shade into theological territory.