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Jonathan Blow
On The Metal
Is There Still So Much to Be Had in Computer Programming Languages?
In the 90s we were still under this impression that like Moore's law is infinite yes. We made assembly language which was a higher level text representation right compiles down and people these days don't think there's much of a difference between those two things but try it they're really different. So then we started having higher level things like Fortran or C, maybe depending on you know what political party you belong to,. LISP was the more powerful next step or maybe it was modular or C++ whatever right? The future diamond dust in programming where it's like there actually is innovation to be had there's a lot there's aLot so I'll give you I'll
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