Things I Learned from ACCU 2010

[Justin Johansson]

retard wrote:
> Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:57:31 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> bearophile wrote:
>>> Being Haskell not easy, it's even possible for me to not understand the
>>> explanation if some Haskell expert eventually explains me why that
>>> Haskell program was slow :-)
>> It's statements like this (and I've heard this repeatedly) that makes me
>> wonder what the value of Haskell actually is to conventional programming
>> tasks and regular programmers.
> 
> Regular programmers just die away. At some point we don't need crappy 
> results anymore.
> 
> The software engineering is often about reimplementing things. If a level 
> 1 novice writes a blog engine, you need level 2..20 programmers to fix 
> all the sql injection / xss bugs and caching issues. After that, even 
> better programmers finally write maintainable and readable code. But it 
> doesn't scale. That's why companies like Facebook hire guys like Andrei 
> to fix the bugs caused by the 1st generation PHP newbies.

Good one, retard; that's really funny and surprising that Andrei didn't 
bite :-)

Hard to imagine Andrei doing maintenance programming in some infidel 
programming language that doesn't have decent metaprogramming facilities 
though !!!