The issue focused mainly on algorithms rather than programmers – programming languages often boast procedural semantics – but programmers weren't spared either. Hundreds of programmers emailed Ars outlining examples of unfinished algorithms they wanted their creations to emulate in Rust. Rust programmers celebrated – perhaps unsurprisingly given its nascent status – while programmers speculated whether Rust programmers might adopt Haskell or Scala. Programming languages aside, coding patterns emerged across various professions as programmers experimented with coding styles ranging from esoteric procedural procedural puzzles to algebraic Turing machines and Turing machines programming languages that resembled Turing machines programming