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> Stanley loves strong and static typing. He's a big fan of pattern matching Funny, the language that made me a fan of pattern matching was Elixir.
by tl 3y ago
> Stanley loves strong and static typing. He's a big fan of pattern matching
Funny, the language that made me a fan of pattern matching was Elixir.
- bounce76 3y ago[flagged]
- striking 3y agoI think you missed the rest of the sentence: > He's a big fan of pattern matching, and enums, and discriminated unions, which allow correctness to be verified at compile time. And the forest for the trees: > [Stanley] hates any source of uncertainty or ambiguity > [the author argues] this view of software is not just wrong, but fundamentally incompatible with the real world. The author paints a picture of someone who chooses these tools not because they are nice tools or because the tools are helpful but because of desires that stem from misguided, dogmatic, unhelpful beliefs that make the subject a worse engineer. By contrast, you are probably a lovely person who loves writing nice code. This article has nothing to say about you.