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  1. Comment on What programming language do you use for work and what's your favorite language? in ~comp

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    Actual question: what do you write professionally in Haskell? I've dabbled in it but I was under the impression that it was almost exclusively used for academic exercises and not for actual...

    Actual question: what do you write professionally in Haskell? I've dabbled in it but I was under the impression that it was almost exclusively used for academic exercises and not for actual industry work

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  2. Comment on What programming language do you use for work and what's your favorite language? in ~comp

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    At work it's JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, HTML, CSS, and SQL at work. For a long time, JavaScript has been my favorite language but that's been shifting to Rust over the last few months

    At work it's JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, HTML, CSS, and SQL at work. For a long time, JavaScript has been my favorite language but that's been shifting to Rust over the last few months

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  3. Comment on What programming language do you think deserves more credit? in ~comp

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    Sorry, I guess I missed that line.

    Sorry, I guess I missed that line.

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  4. Comment on What programming language do you think deserves more credit? in ~comp

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    Memory leaks, not memory safety issues. You can't dereference a null pointer, overflow a buffer, or stomp all over the stack (in normal, safe mode). Any language which allows looping and does some...

    Memory leaks, not memory safety issues. You can't dereference a null pointer, overflow a buffer, or stomp all over the stack (in normal, safe mode). Any language which allows looping and does some kind of dynamic memory allocation will have leaks. No way around that.

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  5. Comment on What programming language do you think deserves more credit? in ~comp

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    I don't think anyone complains about :: as a scope resolution operator. That's pretty standard. C#, Rust, and probably others use it. In my experience, most people complaining about PHP were...

    I don't think anyone complains about :: as a scope resolution operator. That's pretty standard. C#, Rust, and probably others use it.

    In my experience, most people complaining about PHP were exposed to v4 - v6. Myself included. Those versions of PHP were very counter-intuitive, easy to accidentally expose your source code to the world, lacked a strong type system, and errors leaned towards the incomprehensible or just got eaten. I hear 7.x is better but if you're going to defend it, at least argue against the things that people complain about.

    Source: Wrote PHP 5 for ~3 years

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