slacknatcher12

Not that difficult if you go for haskell shops and also do freelancing on the side and get to pick the language.

> but C is also hands down the best language to get a sense of how the computer is running your program.

C is in an odd position right now to argue it is how the machine is really working. Computers are more complicated since bigger caches entered the picture. Hell I do not think even ASM is a good approximation on how machine really work given the data dependencies will make stuff being processed in parallel instead of sequentially.

What you could argue is that C is the archetype for an imperative language procedural language with a clean mapping to ASM. That is different than how the machine works. Simpler architecture have less distance between their ASM and what is really hapenning.

I mean it is compiled language, but it is fine IMHO. I use `ghcide` which is a script for `ghci` (the repl) if an agent wants access.

this is an interesting observation. I have various explanation on why that might be the case.

on a commercial setting there is more pressure to deliver code then to review it. combine it with the lack of our benevolent dictator for life (that has been on the project the world life cycle, not just recently), there is no one with power to actually say no to changes.

language geeks are novelty seekers. they will use every feature of their language . stronger languages have more features to abuse. so on a commercial setting you will have all the features being used without much thought an architectural design that says you that no, we shouldn't do that.

that's also why I think projects with benevolent dictators for life on the open source ward don't fall these in paths even though they use languages that are stronger.

you could restrict yourself to use languages that have only one way to be used, so python as it was originally. or use a language little abstraction power. but you will suffer in other ways. as abstraction power is genuinely useful. accidental complexity has a way of getting in by expressive means or by social means.

not to argue your major point, but more entropy makes things more uniform/less complex. think of the heat death of the universe.

Yep. Even with "old drugs" the new programs using those give significantly better chances than with the old programs. Year of data collecting sure have given results.

I had testicular cancer in 2006 in Chile. I was a teenager so I went with the public system (AUGE back then). My parents friends were giving the condolences for my soon to occur death. The doctors had a laugh as in the last 10 years (by then) my chances of dying of it became basically nil.

Last year we hired a new guy at $JOB that 1 week after being hired was diagnosed with testicular cancer too. He really thought he was gonna die. He was at stage 4 (which is a highly zone specific metric). Last time I saw him he is still coding and more bald. It was more difficult to sort payments than the treatment as he is in the US.

I just gave a list of possible meanings of what parent said. Only one of them is the numbers of reductions.