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"Because they know what you are just starting to grasp. That it shouldn’t be like this. That computers have vastly underserved their users. Conceptually, mobile and casual interaction is the future of computing. But it has no formal basis."

"The good tools like functional programming and provably correct algorithms are either too esoteric or too expensive for the mainstream"

I was really with him there.

Then when he said:

"That’s a reason why one of my favorite languages is php. It just works. Screw up your variable typing? Who cares. Forget a symbol somewhere? Heck you still get some output and can see your error."

Is the contradiction there not obvious?




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