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Show me a Haskell programmer who doesn't understand memory management. You are grumpy, and I am older, but all memory is managed.

I recently ran into someone that was teaching a Python boot camp and they were forcing the students to use VIM instead of PyCharm, and in their words, "using a text editor requires them to memorize apis".

They didn't know about type inference, rename, extract method or navigate to declaration. I view it as the same bias, the attitude doesn't encourage people to use the best tools for the job because we suffered in the past. How about we go back in time and teach young selves how to write code than actually use 2TB of main memory and 128 cores using a dev environment that can scale to millions of lines of code.




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