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The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Importance of Programming Languages

A program is like math plus sort of prose or poetry. It's a lot like when you're writing down directions for a friend, maybe especially someone who doesn't speak your native tongue as their first language. To me, it's almost like the movies where you have the Neo and the Matrix, you can bend the Matrix. Software was always about how can I sort of bend the rules, how can I make things faster?

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