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- 1Dijkstra's 1978 critique of natural language programming resurfaces●The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)
Edsger W. Dijkstra's 1978 essay arguing against the idea of programming in natural language is drawing renewed attention. In the text he contends that natural language is too ambiguous and imprecise to serve as a programming medium, and that formal notation is essential to rigorous computing. The piece is prompting discussion about whether his arguments still hold in the era of AI-assisted, prompt-based coding.
- 2Developer learning Rust finds enums solve everything●I'm doing a small, silly project in Rust, both to just program, now that I don't do that at work, and to learn Rust, whi
A programmer returning to coding as a hobby says their small side project in Rust, a language they have never used before, keeps leading them to the same answer: adding more enums. They wonder whether this enum-heavy habit is a natural fit for Rust's type system or just a personal quirk.