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  • Don't ignore that Paul Graham doesn't want everyone to use his language (see "Beating the averages" [paulgraham.com]. He doesn't care about everyone, and he's making this for a handful of people who know the secret handshake. It's not supposed to be easy to understand because that doesn't filter out the people he thinks shouldn't be programmers.

    • Good point. I disagree with him on that, but that's possibly due to my naive fantasy of wanting to help average developers become good developers. This might not be possible for many (most?) of them. I really don't know.

      • Superstar programmers are born, not made. I don’t think there’s any way to change that. It takes a certain mental predisposition that does not appear to be teachable; either your mind works that way or it does not.

        Nevertheless, if you look at spreadsheets, you’ll see that by reducing the minimum required ability for abstraction and increasing the amount of computation state that's tangibly visible, people with little programming skill can be empowered to harness computing machines for th

        • Superstar programmers are born, not made. I don’t think there’s any way to change that.

          As someone who didn't do programming until their 20s, I must call bullshit. It's sort of like the people who think that if you haven't written your first masterpiece at age 9 you can never learn to play the piano.

          It takes a certain mental predisposition that does not appear to be teachable; either your mind works that way or it does not.

          I think you have reversed the cause and effect. We teach algorithms and data structures, but we don't teach how to think like a programmer. We barely examine it, partially because we're bad at people. Partially because we have the idea that it can't be taught, so why bother trying?

          This is why

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