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I think you are not interpreting GP in the most charitable way. He simply said that not having to manually write all the code lets him spend his energy on bigge
by kaffekaka 4d ago
I think you are not interpreting GP in the most charitable way. He simply said that not having to manually write all the code lets him spend his energy on bigger things. That is different from "struggling with syntax".
- fodkodrasz 4d agoIt is the same. I mean many mainstream languages made thinking in datastructures hard. Not a coincidence why functional languages, Haskell, F#, OCAML, Scala, Clojure, LISP, etc. had their enthusiast, as they felt just like what you claim. The datastructures already did the heavy lifting. The syntax was not something to struggle with, but it was the natural way to stick the bits together. JavaScript for one never gave me this feeling, and I always felt that either the language, or the libraries, but something was always a struggle to overcome. (Python too... seriously, working with collections is a pain in the "pythonic" way for someone who has experienced LINQ... and for most line of business apps it is all about working with collections.)
- turpentine 3d agoSyntax is listed right there in the GP comment. They've given plenty of rope to hang themselves by. Someone who says that programming is not about working at the level of about data structures and algorithms without LLMs raises red flags.