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The Dumbing-Down of Programming (salon.com)
18 points by iamthemalto on Feb 19, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


On reading this, it mostly talks about operating systems as way of analogy. It barely talks of programming at all. Best I can make of it is that anything that's not close to the metal is tame, weak, etc. Seems a pointless and antiquated view, and I don't only mean from friendly garbage collected languages, but also from sharper tools like ML-languages, Pony, what-have-you. This is the C is better than Rust camp of thinking.


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