I feel bad for people entering this industry who’ve inherited our neurosis. When I’m at conferences, the thing I hear most is people terrified they’re using the wrong tools or doing the wrong thing.
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well put Yehuda
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When I was in grad school getting steeped in ultra sketchy FP triumphalism this Perlis quote stuck in my mind as cognitive dissonance: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-3.html …
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I’m glad it was there to hold me back from falling all the way down the rabbit hole and becoming a “Bible salesman” as he put it.
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And sure enough I’ve come out the other side to see FP as a source of lots of good ideas and yet not a silver bullet (*cough*). There’s something so seductive and dangerous about taking yourself too seriously.
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I might be missing your point, but I definitely feel this writing code on a side project... feels 100% creative and freeing (though admittedly takes a while to get to shipping)
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I agree so much I'm instituting a "play with p5js" day for every front end developer. Mandatory playtime!
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Is it? You say "tools", all I hear is "toys". I'm 46.
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