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Re:If You're Not Writing a Program, Don't Use a Programming ... by emodendroket on Monday September 24, 2018 @02:49PM (#18060269)
I agree. People obsess about the choice of programming language, insisting that months of study are needed to choose. I just don't see it except for very specialized tools or applications.

That said, I find maintaining an old, large application written in an untyped language pretty miserable.

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Re:If You're Not Writing a Program, Don't Use a Programming ... by i_made_a_booboo on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @02:24AM (#18064047)
I've had equal misery both typed and untyped on large, old, legacy stuff.

Maybe programming just sucks.

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Re:If You're Not Writing a Program, Don't Use a Programming ... by emodendroket on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @08:18AM (#18065654)
At least you don't have to read the method to figure out the input and output types. And the IDE can help you much more. I find these things big when trying to modify some massive codebase I don't know inside and out.
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