I think there's a corollary of Zawinski's law: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read PDF files."
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I regularly see the phrase "all Xs are Ys, but not all Ys are Xs" in teaching material. Even material for children!
I have to re-read it every time. I very much prefer "Y is a more general category than X" or "X is a subset of Y".
Do people find this phrasing helpful, or is it poor pedagogy?
I'm still tinkering with the website for my PL experiment. I want the styling to express "labour of love hobby project".
Choosing what program to show on the home page is really hard too. All the keywords are links like Racket.
What do you think? https://www.garden-lang.org/
One day I am going to reach the height of technological sophistication, and every clock in my house will handle daylight savings automatically.
I'm not there yet. I think modern appliances are getting better though.
(Does a microwave really need to know the current time?)