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Re:Less is exponentially more (2012) by ChrisSD on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @10:26AM (#23154309)
To be honest programmers have a habit of being very loose with language. Terms like "OOP" and "types" have very context dependent meanings. Given the context, I took him to simply be talking about people coming from "class-based" languages, not anything to do with types in general.
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Re:Less is exponentially more (2012) by fernmyth on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @10:34PM (#23162828)
> To be honest programmers have a habit of being very loose with language.

I wish this weren't true. It's quite damning.

It's less bad in a real-time conversation, with fast feedback about how well we're being understood. But it still hints that we don't have the concepts clear in our own minds.

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Re:Less is exponentially more (2012) by ses1984 on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @11:44AM (#23155230)
Yeah but it feels almost like a strawman, it feels out of place.
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