wtfdeer

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   by wtfdeer 3y ago

   The "teaching language" adage is misleading. Pascal wasn't made to merely teach programming before moving on to "proper" languages, as this would imply. Instead, it was made to teach proper structured programming, a
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   by wtfdeer 3y ago

   Having tried to teach a few acquaintances some programming tidbits, I can tell you that they're already excluded. The local programming textbooks are made of cringe, the vocabulary is confusing and the documentation is scarce and out o
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   by wtfdeer 3y ago

   The code itself is a mere curiosity, but it has two key takeaways. First, writing code in national languages is mostly a shit idea. Here we can at least recognize and match some words, but what if it was Arabic or Chinese script? Even with