Programming Languages


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A lot of people want to make badly designed programming languages easier to use by giving them fancy IDE’s. This makes sense if you are forced to use a badly designed language. I think it would be better to try making well designed languages instead.
James Moen

While functions being unable to change state is good because it helps us reason about our programs, there's one problem with that. If a function can't change anything in the world, how is it supposed to tell us what it calculated? In order to tell us what it calculated, it has to change the state of an output device (usually the state of the screen), which then emits photons that travel to our brain and change the state of our mind, man. ...more
Miran Lipovača

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