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   julesh (julesh@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 03:29:12 JST julesh

   Programming languages train you to not want what they don't provide, which is why programmers should learn a wide variety of different styles in order to not take any shit from language designers

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     julesh (julesh@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 03:29:10 JST julesh

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     • Philipp :emacs: :nixos:

     @pmidden I normally call it "writing Fortran in Haskell"

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     Philipp :emacs: :nixos: (pmidden@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 03:29:11 JST Philipp :emacs: :nixos:

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     @julesh Or even declare stuff they _can_ do as noncanonical (cf. "Pythonic").

     Janneke repeated this.