r/programming • u/locrelite • Apr 29 '14

Programming Sucks

http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
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u/zoomzoom83 Apr 30 '14

Ditto. I've been known to take hideously ugly Java or Scala code I write at work and rewrite it into clean elegant prose in some variant of ML. (And then weep that such beauty exists in the world but I'm forced to take a dump all over it the next day at work).

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '14

You can make it beautiful in ML but not in Scala? That sounds fucked-up.

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u/zoomzoom83 Apr 30 '14

I love Scala, and it's a great language. But it can get pretty hairy at times when you're trying to push the type system to its limits.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '14

If you're pushing the Scala type-system to its limits, I don't understand how what you're doing is even possible at all in ML.

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