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Re:Why isn’t new technology making us more productive? by UncleMeat on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @08:29AM (#31503564)
And structured programming is just sugar over GOTOs.

Polymorphism is just sugar over type inspection and branching.

Recursion-free function calls are just sugar over variable renaming and text movement.

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Re:Why isn’t new technology making us more productive? by amelius on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @11:58AM (#31506386)
Correct, but that misses the point, which is that async programming is NOT sugar over the more powerful approach of preemptive multitasking (introduced in Windows sometime after version 3.1).
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