Hot take: your first three #programming languages should be #lua, then #clojure, then #smalltalk. Your production language should be your fourth language.
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Not all enterprise-level domain models have to be for an enterprise
#UML #SoftwareEngineering #Modeling #DomainModeling #Programming #Books #ProjectGutenberg #Copyright
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@thacuber2a03@mastodon.gamedev.place Structured, then functional, then object oriented. Dynamically typed the whole way. Total immersion into the purest form of each programming paradigm. Wildly divergent syntax. Even the usual style of interacting with the interpreters are different: text files, REPL, graphical IDE.
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A special license is required to use the Font Software on letter form goods for sale, electronic books, game playing devices, […]
This, from the “free” font agreement, is exactly the kind of annoying minutiae I have no interest in keeping track of. I’m going to skip downloading these, even at no cost, because I don’t want to risk accidentally infringing.
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@inaction_figure@fosstodon.org I thought long and hard about Pascal vs. Lua vs. Go for this hot take.
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org My first ones were GW-BASIC, TI-BASIC, and JavaScript (ES3). I still get paid to write JavaScript (well these days it's TypeScript) today.
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@syntaxseed@phpc.social Of course they do! No matter where you learned them, they were your first 😁
Folks who generate images using AI often throw things like "trending on ArtStation" into their prompts. I wonder if vibe coders will try things like "10K+ stars on GitHub".
#AI #LLM #GenAI #DALLE #MidJourney #VibeCoding #ClaudeCode #Junie #Cursor #Windsurf
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@rlonstein@mastodon.sdf.org Some folks adapt that quip to structured programmers and OOP too, but I have faith in folks’ ability to learn and adapt.
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@fdavies93@mastodon.social And more than information architecture, maybe even the entirety of hacker culture: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43737218