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Open answers to a reader's letter.

A reader recently wrote me a long letter with lots of questions about learning programming in this age of LLMs. After a bit of back-and-forth, I got permission to quote extensively from the letter in order to attempt some answers in public.

None of my answers I consider particularly rigorous; the situatio...


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C# is a great programming language, but F# is better.

This article is part of a series called Worse is better, in which I muse on technologies and techniques that became popular despite superior alternatives. Think


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The return of SQL?

It's no secret that I'm no fan of ORMs. Most people, on the other hand, find them indispensable. As one reader commented:

"I can work with raw SQL ofcourse... but the mapping... oh the mapping..."


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