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One the one hand it's really hard to program well. I think anyone who can solve a sudoku puzzle can learn to program, but only people with freakish skill or determination can learn to program really well.

On the other hand, those folks who can program really well are often what I call "complexity junkies": programming is their sudoku, it's fun and exciting. It helps that you can get paid well to do it.

So you get things like Haskell and Rust.



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