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This 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
by DaleBiagio 7mo ago
This 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 6mo agoAppreciate you getting the source!