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A programming language does not need to have a for loop. In fact many don't.


Programming languages need to give the developer a way to iterate (map, fold, for-loop, whatever) over a collection of items. Over time we've come up with more elegant ways of doing this, but as a programmer, until LLMs, you've still had to be actively involved in the control logic. My point is that a developer's relationship with the code is very different now, in a way that wasn't true with previous low-to-high level language climbs.


I was thinking of something like SQL, which is declarative and you tell it what you want, not how to do it broadly speaking.




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