How C accidentally locked programming into a single paradigm

[Paul Tarvydas]

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We’re wasting brain-power inventing epicycles in order to crawl out of the corner we’ve painted ourselves into. When CPUs were wildly expensive, it made sense to waste brain-power instead of silicon power.

Now, though, we can stop doing that.
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https://programmingsimplicity.substack.com/p/how-c-accidentally-locked-programming?r=1egdky

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[Mike Austin]

How do we stop doing that? A function is simply an abstraction, input => output. First class functions, closures, useful stuff.