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Absolutely loving

2024-03-18 16:45:03.089585+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Absolutely loving @jwgoerlich@infosec.exchange's reposting of the foreword to "Learning Perl". https://jwgoerlich.com/we-were-wizards-learning-perl/

I've been reading through the learning Rust book (again), and thinking about how we used to aspire to expressiveness in computer languages, and now...

It feels like the sense of possibility needs to come back to computing. LLMs and GANs make it feel like the most we're aspiring to is bloviating and bad drawing. I want my future back!

[ related topics: Books Perl Open Source Education hubris ]

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