The Two Worlds of Programming

Re:The Two Worlds of Programming by DaleBiagio on Thursday March 19, 2026 @11:29AM (#47441159)

This tension is as old as programming itself. Dijkstra and Hoare spent decades arguing for rigor.

Meanwhile C, JavaScript, and PHP, none of them designed for correctness, won the world. The languages that ship always beat the languages that are right.

LLMs just accelerated the pattern.

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Re:The Two Worlds of Programming by az09mugen on Friday March 20, 2026 @03:43AM (#47451659)

"There are 2 kinds of programming languages : the ones that everyone complains about and the ones that no one uses"

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Re:The Two Worlds of Programming by DaleBiagio on Friday March 20, 2026 @05:12AM (#47452212)

haha, where is that quote from? Fantastic

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Re:The Two Worlds of Programming by az09mugen on Saturday March 21, 2026 @01:09AM (#47464151)

Apparently Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++ : https://bits-chips.com/article/challenging-c/

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Re:The Two Worlds of Programming by DaleBiagio on Monday March 23, 2026 @03:39PM (#47494142)

Appreciate you getting the source!

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