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This thread symbolizes everything that is wrong with our industry.

70% pop culture, 30% strong opinions, 0% facts. There is no science in computer science outside of algorithms, there is especially no science or engineering or anything substantial in the love child of this industry: programming languages.

I have still some hope this changes someday, with

https://leanpub.com/leprechauns and the older

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/03/revisiting-the-fact...

e.g. when to use FP (the tool to solve a problem, not the religion), or OOP (the tool to solve a problem, not the religion) and what is the probability that this works in that environment etc. Like when to use steel or wood. But man, we're decades away from that.



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