language engineer, ex-chief science officer, research maniac, professor, programmer, hacker, automation enthusiast, wiki addict, grammar nazi, blues fan
@leva_levchenko@raykhrud Единственное бельгийское пиво, кстати, которого сами бельгийцы избегают. Его варится огромное количество, и практически всё до последней капли идёт на экспорт.
@CoolSWEng@MrHritik I've switched to JetBrains Mono last year, for all IDEs as well as for slides, and quite content with the outcome. Not sure it would've solved this particular case, though...
@HeptaSean @richpaige Yes, I've been advocating Python as the 1st language too since at least 2002! But then again, my first language was strongly typed (Pascal), so everything about me is wrong. And C also gets formatted structurally anyway, only it's harder to parse (and C++ is almost impossible).
Greg Michaelson's talk at #prog21 started with interesting contemplations of where programming paradigms came from and how to teach them, and quickly deteriorated to the author bashing Python and Haskell as being "horrible" and "unrealistic". Puzzling.
@richpaige It started with "teach concepts, not language" and "choose language close to your heart" (which I can get behind). The author seemed to be a firm believer that C and Asm are the only languages representative of real life and thus the only choices to teach computational thinking.
#CoCoDo/#prog21 speaker: "@llvmorg has an optimiser phase because we are humans and we do not write well-optimised code!"
My inner voice: "writing non-optimised code? speak for yourself!"
My students' code in the background:
Today is the start of @programmingconf, and even more importantly, the day of #CoCoDo! I didn't travel anywhere and didn't get to meet anyone in person, but at least I received a conference-style breakfast: