<story><title>Stages of Denial</title><url>https://beyondloom.com/blog/denial.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheAceOfHearts</author><text>This is a category of cursed knowledge which causes psychic damage to the reader.&lt;p&gt;When you go down certain rabbit holes you develop a fascination with obscure forms of programming and start to realize it has some powerful benefits of which you can never take advantage because it isn&amp;#x27;t widely adopted.&lt;p&gt;To free yourself from this curse write ten regular for-loops in C and say a prayer to K&amp;amp;R while tighly holding your copy of The C Programming Language.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aaron-santos</author><text>If you internalize this cursed knowledge, you will see how language[C]-evangelists cherry-pick which dimensions to measure the value&amp;#x2F;success of a programing language. Don&amp;#x27;t proceed. It will make you frustrated, cynical, and disillusioned with the state of PL discourse.</text></comment>
<story><title>Stages of Denial</title><url>https://beyondloom.com/blog/denial.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheAceOfHearts</author><text>This is a category of cursed knowledge which causes psychic damage to the reader.&lt;p&gt;When you go down certain rabbit holes you develop a fascination with obscure forms of programming and start to realize it has some powerful benefits of which you can never take advantage because it isn&amp;#x27;t widely adopted.&lt;p&gt;To free yourself from this curse write ten regular for-loops in C and say a prayer to K&amp;amp;R while tighly holding your copy of The C Programming Language.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danwills</author><text>I know it&amp;#x27;s a joke but I don&amp;#x27;t really agree that this area is cursed! It just delves way deeper into syntactical terseness than many programmers will tolerate.. even compared to assembler it&amp;#x27;s quite a different beast.&lt;p&gt;I think still potentially very interesting if you&amp;#x27;re keen on expressing the most computation using the smallest number of characters though!</text></comment>