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It's been there in programming from essentially the first day too. People skip the theory and just get hacking.

Otherwise we'd all be writing Haskell now. Or rather we'd not be writing anything since a real compiler would still have been to hacky and not theoretically correct.

I'm writing this with both a deep admiration as well as practical repulsion of C.S. theory.



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