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Re:Clear is better than clever [pdf] by oblio on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @05:09AM (#19847698)
And that's why lispers are at most 1% of the total number of programmers out there, 50+ years after the language was invented.

You could say that most programmers are crap, but those crap programmers seem to make the world work, so they must be doing something right :-)

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Re:Clear is better than clever [pdf] by LandR on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @08:08AM (#19848647)
> You could say that most programmers are crap

Because they are

> but those crap programmers seem to make the world work

For certains value of "work". Most software is crap too and it's getting worse not better.

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Re:Clear is better than clever [pdf] by oblio on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @08:19AM (#19848720)
Yet it makes people's live better day by day... I feel that as insiders we don't really realize that software works quite well compared to many every day things.
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