Re:John Carmack on Mutable Variables
by adrianN on Friday October 31, 2025 @11:58AM
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In theory itβs certainly right that imperative programs are harder to reason about. In practice programmers tend to avoid writing the kind of program where anything can happen.
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> In practice programmers tend to avoid writing the kind of program where anything can happen.
My faith in this presumption dwindles every year. I expect AI to only exacerbate the problem.