What programming language should you learn?
@japhroaig wrote: That's it. I am going to retire, grow a huuuge beard, smoke a long pipe, and seriously.only.wear. tweed. And write perl. All my posts will be on making regexs look nicer and more...
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@Miramon wrote: Writing APL isn't that hard. As you point out, the trouble is reading it. It's the original write-only language. Read full topic
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@OtherMichael wrote: Hasn't anybody heard of a linter? Read full topic
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@PatRx2 wrote: Got one in my clothes dryer. Read full topic
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@OtherMichael wrote: Oh, hey, everybody -- what do you think about indentation - tabs or spaces? And how many? And what about lexical whitespace a la Python? Read full topic
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@PatRx2 wrote: Hello World in INTERCAL: DO ,1 <- #13PLEASE DO ,1 SUB #1 <- #238DO ,1 SUB #2 <- #108DO ,1 SUB #3 <- #112DO ,1 SUB #4 <- #0DO ,1 SUB #5 <- #64DO ,1 SUB #6 <- #194DO...
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@GilbertWham wrote: Yay! Progress! Read full topic
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@mtdna wrote: If your standard is conciseness you're sure not gonna like Java2k... http://p-nand-q.com/programming/languages/java2k/ Read full topic
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@caze wrote: VB6 was great though, I used to love hacking it to do crazy shit it wasn't designed for, like multi-threading, and writing W32 control api wrappers. It also had the best debugger ever,...
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@PatRx2 wrote: mtdna: If your standard is conciseness you're sure not gonna like Java2k... http://p-nand-q.com/programming/languages/java2k/ Well, that's just it - if you work in a language like...
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@Miramon wrote: APL. Because if you get a job on that basis, you will really have something to put in your memoirs. Read full topic
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@mtdna wrote: And also, you get to have an awesome keyboard! Read full topic
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@redesigned wrote: OtherMichael: what do you think about indentation - tabs or spaces? And how many? i'm a tab person. I also keep { on the same line. I'll typically keep my code as vertically...
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@redesigned wrote: PatRx2: Now granted, all these languages create incanta programmes that are difficult to reverse engineer ruby is the opposite, you can write very concise code and it is mostly...
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@daneel wrote: No tabs, no comments. Code is hard to write. It should be hard to read, too. Actually, when I did write code for a living, the standard was (3?) spaces. Read full topic
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@OtherMichael wrote: redesigned: i'm a tab person. die_in_fire.jpg710x600 227 KB Read full topic
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@redesigned wrote: daneel: Actually, when I did write code for a living, the standard was (3?) spaces. Most of the text editors / IDEs I use have tab set to 5 spaces when you choose to use spaces....
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@caze wrote: also, with tabs, each programmer can set their IDE to use the desired number of spaces for each tab, so those crazy people who think anything other than 2 is the correct number won't...
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