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Re:Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple by worrycue on Monday May 22, 2023 @12:46AM (#36027561)
> I pursued computer science because of the romanticized notation of tracking every bit and byte and talking directly to the hardware.

Isn’t computer science mostly math? Figure people in computer science would be more at home with the abstract stuff like Haskell where you can’t even see the underlying hardware and your programs are expressed as a bunch of (declarative) functions where sequential execution of instructions is a very small part of your programs.

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Re:Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple by bcrosby95 on Monday May 22, 2023 @02:09AM (#36027997)
Um, no. At most schools, the only place you might touch something as esoteric as Haskell is in a programming languages class.
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Re:Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple by bombolo on Monday May 22, 2023 @04:41AM (#36028844)
At my university haskell was required from the start and used in several courses.
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Re:Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple by hdidhxifj on Monday May 22, 2023 @03:08AM (#36028328)
it used to, outside of the us. now everywhere is java 101.
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