karolsputo
Joined 8 years ago
Joined 8 years ago
PG likes to do that as much as any other person. I recall a random tweet telling something like “all smart people I know are moving their wealth from bitcoin to ethereum”. This is crying for attention, unfit for such an accomplished person and this great website.
For someone who writes mostly in GC languages this was a great read and can recommend.
Even with switching to <your_safe_language> let’s not loose awareness of what is possible to strengthen current approaches.
He covers learning programming and books like the one you mentioned.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/25/how-democracie...
Glad to see lots of comment with alternatives here.
[0] https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/81...
Maybe it’s time to use more Lisps than Scripts.
If anybody starting out is reading this, I second the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programms recommendation. Wish I started with that as well, but it has been truly great even later into a programming career.