[−]oldjohnnylane · 2026-11-15 Sun 17:52 UTC ·
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The wall of defensive, hostile replies to this simple post is expected. Today’s programmers need to feel like they are an elite class above the rabble and programming is their identity. When someone shows them an example of what talented programming really looks like, they have to pile on and dismiss it from a thousand cuts. The guy who wrote Pascal understood the system top to bottom, and understood computer science. There are maybe a few thousand programmers alive today with that kind of skill, and it hurts the egos of the average HN typescript scrum jockey to see something they just don’t comprehend so they lash out at it.