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On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:24:27 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 15/10/2025 00:34, c186282 wrote:
>> I suppose there's nothing wrong with CS ... but
>>    on the flip, how much good or good stuff comes it either ?
>> 
>>    CS is just a branch of theoretical math. I'd like some figures on
>>    how many CS people can write a good old "Hello World".
> 
> None. Formal programming languages don't contain IO.

The classic criticism of pure didactic Pascal was it is a language 
supremely capable of telling secrets to itself. iirc before Common Lisp 
the original Lisp was just as adept. I/O is messy and impacts the purity 
of the language.