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Re: HCSL: Hand coded stringy lisp

#21
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have a broken understanding of what "free speech" means. When someone expresses an critical opinion, it is not a violation of someone else's free speech.

Yet requesting the removal of a content only to satisfy one's emotional immaturity is an attempt to limit this freedom.

"You might want to..." is a recommendation, not a request.

Re: HCSL: Hand coded stringy lisp

#24
I am not happy with the "joke" in the README and if I could I would report it but it looks like it doesn't fall into Github categorization of abuse. Keep your bad jokes to yourself, inside your head, where nobody can see them.

Re: HCSL: Hand coded stringy lisp

#25
Based on the rationale given I think the author could have used GNU m4. While I'm definitely not fond of the syntax, it can get the job done. I don't think many (if any) projects use it (excluding autoconf).

Here's the manual on one page https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/m4.html

An m4 example, similar with the snippet within the README

    define(`foo', `$1' `$2')
    foo(hello, world) 
    define(`bar', hello)
    foo(`bar', world) 
    esyscmd(`./executable-path') 
    esyscmd(`cat /tmp/file')

Re: HCSL: Hand coded stringy lisp

#29
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's very obviously tongue in cheek.

Right? I'm really blown away by the amount of people on here that seem to think this is a serious sentiment.

mmm ... i should start my readme as "> black people are always late." it just isn't acceptable even though that's an inside joke where/how i was raised. have some empathy. not everyone is going to get it and it's your responsibility to understand that. no context was explicitly given other that it's quoted so we may or may not attribute the comment as the perception of the README author

Re: HCSL: Hand coded stringy lisp

#30
post #5
post #3

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Yeah it doesn't really land well as a joke because it's the very first thing. Joking hot takes at least need a bit of warm up so readers know what's going on, whereas this just opens with a no-context dis at women where it's not even clear what the joking read is supposed to be talking about. What hard work? What's happening?

Yes, I actually completely agree with this.

I placed it on the readme after a long night of working on this project. The joke was directed at my partner who had giggled with me about the absurdity of writing a dsl to template my website.

That said, I do agree that it doesn't land well out of context for the general audience, and for that reason will be removed

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