shokwave comments on PSA: Learn to code - Less Wrong

34 Post author: John_Maxwell_IV 25 May 2012 06:50PM

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Comment author: shokwave 28 May 2012 01:10:57PM 1 point [-]

Ways in which it might be less expressive: using the small, efficient pieces of Unix takes a while to be conceptually similar to using the different functions of a programming language. Using a regex.

(Inferential distance is hard to estimate; I know I like to hear where I'm incorrectly assuming short distances; I hope you do too).