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John Carmack on mutable variables

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498 points azhenley | 2 comments | 31 Oct 25 02:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.415s | source
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y0ned4 ◴[31 Oct 25 09:22 UTC] No.45769960[source]▶
When I started programming in Haskell, where all variables are immutable, I felt like I was in a straitjacket

Then, suddenly, the enlightenment

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1. blub ◴[31 Oct 25 11:37 UTC] No.45770896[source]▶
How do you know it’s real? When one is in a straitjacket for a long time, the trauma might make the mind disassociate from the body, giving an illusion of freedom.

The brain is essentially dreaming it’s escaped while the body is still programming in Java.

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2. archerx ◴[31 Oct 25 12:04 UTC] No.45771090[source]▶
That made me laugh, thank you.