

Reminder that TIOBE is ass and shouldn’t be used for basically anything except for who to target advertising to.


Reminder that TIOBE is ass and shouldn’t be used for basically anything except for who to target advertising to.


Harmful: compilers
Better alternative: magnetized needle and a steady hand


Mutation (or not) is a matter of runtime semantics, not surface semantics. Let the compiler figure it out. (Functional-but-in-place c.f. Koka, Roc, Lean4)
Purity and referential transparency make writing correct, zero-maintenance code easy.
Although you can extract a lot of money from your customers if you deliver inscrutible code that needs a lot of maintenance.


Modern OOP is an antipattern.


I try to only write in easy language if I can. My favorite one is Lean4.
There’s lots of this vs that discussion in this thread. IMO the most useful such distinction I’ve encountered is languages that encourage you to think about data vs languages that encourage you to think about transformations (of data). Excel and modern OOP are the former while haskell and digital signal processing are the latter.
She and Foucault oppressed plenty.
Immigration and customs enforcement? Huh?


Now I’m thinking about Flat Stanley Parable


If you want the machine to just work and not require or encourage you to fool around with it all the time, debian is the answer. Other than installing security updates, you don’t have to think about it.


Garbage post from top to bottom
Hilarious that this is noteworthy