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This is profoundly true. Programming largely used to be a crazy pile of GOTO statements and "bad code". I shake my fist at today's programming!

The wild west days of things can be crazy but fun. Then the crowds and tax collectors come, laws are made, and now these little atomized commits that stitch together APIs is "programming".

It makes me think of other areas of life. Most of us show up at the boring, overlegislated, agile test driven development phase of things. Maybe it is good to look for the wild roots of anything.




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