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Re:Show HN: Going into Freshman Year, Figured I Should Build... by icsa on Monday August 28, 2023 @09:09PM (#37302341)
> lisp ocaml haskell

Covers all of the major programming languages in a deep way.

> interpreters (SICP), compilers, type systems, transaction processing, effect systems, FRP, concurrency

These subjects are the core of almost any system that you'll encounter, in practice - academic or industrial.

Re:Show HN: Going into Freshman Year, Figured I Should Build... by dustingetz on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @08:53AM (#37307040)
if only the industry recognized this – the-world-if.jpg. We get Conway's Law instead, which I'll cynically restate as "the org is a reflection of it's leadership" or "the org exists to lever up it's leadership, recursively" and that unfortunately has little to do with science