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Re:John Carmack on Functional Programming (2013) [video] by rootlocus on Thursday August 17, 2017 @11:42AM (#15037764)
This was a keynote at a Quakecon, a conference for game players, not a technical presentation for software developers.
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Re:John Carmack on Functional Programming (2013) [video] by vog on Thursday August 17, 2017 @11:59AM (#15037938)
If the audience isn't even technical, isn't that even more a sign that more effort should be put into the presentation, especially for a keynote?
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Re:John Carmack on Functional Programming (2013) [video] by laythea on Thursday August 17, 2017 @03:14PM (#15039906)
Yes but is the aim here not to bedazzle a star struck audience, rather than properly educate?
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