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throwaway787544
on Aug 14, 2022
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Makefiles
Which is doubly ironic as tools and languages described as "declarative" often require the human to jump through many kinds of hoops just to finally make what they've written do what they actually wanted.
shepherdjerred
on Aug 15, 2022
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You're completely right. SQL query hacking can be ridiculous for example. Still, it's a lot better than the alternative.
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