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by _8ljf 2023 days ago
“I think the next leap forward in programming is going to offend the sensibilities of current programmers.”

Honestly, programmers have been railing against progress ever since the first machine coders shook their canes at those ghastly upstart programming languages now tearing up their lawns.

Meanwhile, what often does pass for “progress” amounts to anything but:

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/the-emperors-old-clothes

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