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> before that in the 90's there was a group of programmers that liked to generate code until no colleague understood anymore what was happening. Ah! Just write a quine and be done with it! > I have seen more projects…
That's silly but unfortunately this type of silliness is the norm in the industry.
Interesting, in my experience long compile times in Scala equates with a bad code base. And invariably involves an uber object with a whole lot of implicit conversations and is imported on every other source file.
> I call them "code scientists": engineers want to learn a language to build things, scientists want to build things to learn the language. I think this is a bit contradictory as it is phrased. Learning the language is…
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> before that in the 90's there was a group of programmers that liked to generate code until no colleague understood anymore what was happening. Ah! Just write a quine and be done with it! > I have seen more projects…
That's silly but unfortunately this type of silliness is the norm in the industry.
Interesting, in my experience long compile times in Scala equates with a bad code base. And invariably involves an uber object with a whole lot of implicit conversations and is imported on every other source file.
> I call them "code scientists": engineers want to learn a language to build things, scientists want to build things to learn the language. I think this is a bit contradictory as it is phrased. Learning the language is…