2025-09-29 11:12 UTC
@hosford42@techhub.social @ZBennoui@dragonscave.space @zakalwe@plasmatrap.com @marionline@autistics.life
Good reading for programmers to REALLY LEARN FROM has long been out of print. It is Edsger Dijkstra’s ‘A Discipline of Programming’. That it is out of print is proof that the field has become much, much stupider than it used to be. It is immensely more stupid than it used to be.
This rush to use Rust is so stupid, for instance. It is just the latest fad. Rust sucks. If it were actually about safety, everything would already have been rewritten in Ada!
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@chemoelectric@masto.ai 2025-09-29 11:13
@hosford42@techhub.social @ZBennoui@dragonscave.space @zakalwe@plasmatrap.com @marionline@autistics.life And good reading to REALLY LEARN FROM about math and programming and everything is Pólya’s ‘How to Solve It’ and all of the stuff Pólya wrote on ‘heuristics’.