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The Two Worlds of Programming
- kunley 7mo agoPerhaps this submit deserves expanding a bit the title here on HN, as the current one doesn't tell much about quite interesting points the author is making
- MichaelRo 7mo agoWell, it's a skeptical take on AI so it will be downvoted to oblivion and buried.
- DaleBiagio 7mo agoThis tension is as old as programming itself. Dijkstra and Hoare spent decades arguing for rigor. Meanwhile C, JavaScript, and PHP, none of them designed for correctness, won the world. The languages that ship always beat the languages that are right. LLMs just accelerated the pattern.
- az09mugen 7mo ago"There are 2 kinds of programming languages : the ones that everyone complains about and the ones that no one uses"
- DaleBiagio 7mo agohaha, where is that quote from? Fantastic
- az09mugen 7mo agoApparently Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++ : https://bits-chips.com/article/challenging-c/ https://bits-chips.com/article/challenging-c/
- DaleBiagio 7mo agoAppreciate you getting the source!