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Terse programs are a worthy goal.
Terse no, absolutely not. Concise should be the goal.
OK. Mixed up the words. Should practise my english some more.
If programming languages were religions
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Re: If programming languages were religions
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Atheism is something like a religion Perhaps agnosticism is the none-religion.
What about Apathy?
There's a group that practises a stronger version of Agnosticism. They say "We don't know, and it does not matter. (But it matters that it does not matter.)"
Re: If programming languages were religions
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Terse no, absolutely not. Concise should be the goal.
OK. Mixed up the words. Should practise my english some more.
Ah, enough people say programming languages should be terse that I thought that's exactly what you meant.
Concise is clear and short, terse is less characters but unreadable.
Re: If programming languages were religions
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Heaven is where C programmers go when they move to C++ and discover shared_ptr.
Where do C++ programmers go when the move to Java and discover garbage collection?
To the second level. Where do you think they go when they move over to Python/Ruby/whatever and find out dynamic typing?
ask Dante Alighieri...
Re: If programming languages were religions
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So, Astrology?
Maybe… disclaimer: I'm a professional javascripter 1. Everyone knows it a little, but few actually use it for much, and hardly anyone really understands it. 2. A lot of the ideas came out of old tribal warfare, and was only standardized relatively recently. 3. People who do it full time are WAY overpaid. ;)
does anyone really do javascript fulltime...? It sounds to me like doing CSS fulltime. Or writing XML configuration files for a living. Or something...
Re: If programming languages were religions
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe… disclaimer: I'm a professional javascripter 1. Everyone knows it a little, but few actually use it for much, and hardly anyone really understands it. 2. A lot of the ideas came out of old tribal warfare, and was only standardized relatively recently. 3. People who do it full time are WAY overpaid. ;)
does anyone really do javascript fulltime...? It sounds to me like doing CSS fulltime. Or writing XML configuration files for a living. Or something...
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Using the words PERL and productive without a not qualifier in the same sentence opens up some sort of alternate universe time warp that is so dangerous it should be avoided at all costs.
If you don't think Perl is a productive language, then you have never been a UNIX system administrator.
If you do think Perl is a productive language then you (a) are a unix system administrator and/or (b) have never used a truly productive language.
Re: If programming languages were religions
#118well. someone doesn't like Perl. Sheesh!
He was actually pretty nice to perl (even went as far as to say you will have to use it). What exactly would he have had to say for you not to be offended? Say it's as readable as Python? It isn't.