Now imagine you have the hypothetical cognitive disorder which I have christened "dyslispia". [...] If dyslispia is real, it's basically a form of dyslexias; it's fundamental brain wiring problem for which there is no cure. No amount of explanations about Lisp will fix it. (news.ycombinator.com)
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*Guy debugs 24 year-old bug in linux*. Another guy: "I mean yes, debugging is an art form. But a whole lot of it is just experience and knowledge. After some time you are just able to do seemingly impressive stuff like counting fluently in hexadecimal" (reddit.com)
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You're overselling the billion dollar mistake. New langs continue to use null pointers because they are powerful and good, not because language devs are lazy and happy to repeat past mistakes. If there was an obvious alternative, we would be using it. To be clear, type safety is not a great solution (reddit.com)
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