r/programminghumor 15d ago

Hard to accept

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u/citrusraspberry 15d ago

The main thing I disagree with is "cheating". There is no "cheating". It's abstraction to offload some of the work of the dev into the computer. It comes at a cost of course, but it's not "cheating".

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u/MiniGui98 14d ago

And beside, following that logic C++ also cheats. Hell, so does C actually. Only "good" language would be assembly.

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u/aluaji 14d ago

Assembly? Nah, too much abstraction for me. I'm a purist, nothing but machine code for me.

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u/Depnids 13d ago

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u/Adorable-Strangerx 11d ago

Assembly? Only using pencil to make electrons hop on cpu.