After playing a little bit with QBasic when I was a kid, I was given a K&R C book. My takeaway: programming is not for me. I didn't look at programming seriously again until I was 23. This article is terrible advice. https://www.zeroequalsfalse.press/2017/11/29/c/
"With C code, there’s no going into a program without fully knowing what it’s going to do at every step of the way." I did a thing in Rust recently (yes that one) where I didn't realize that my hash map needed to preserve insertion order until halfway through. 1/2
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Unsurprisingly to most (except this guy apparently), the fact that I was able to make that change without basically restarting the project was a very good thing. 2/2
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Before this happened I was explaining to people "yeah this code is basically C but I needed a hash map so that was enough of a reason to use Rust". Afterwards I was like "lol the requirements changed halfway through and it was 8 lines instead of 'start over from scratch'"
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