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Why do people post nasty things like this?
Why does it feel like HN has become so incredibly sensitive? I have been reading comments here a while (13 years I think), and noticed that in the past couple of years is when critical of any piece of software, no matter how warranted or how tongue in cheek, results in comments like this. How would you have phrased the original sentiment that you wouldn’t think was nasty?
93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19576425 - April 2019 (132 comments)
93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20834351 - Aug 2019 (7 comments)
Also this, recently:
The four noisy horsemen of Perl hate - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27902296 - July 2021 (51 comments)
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I’m sorry the code you produced made you so unhappy EDIT: verb tense changed
Why do people post nasty things like this?
Well that's nice, but what percentage of paint splatters are valid APL? on edit: actually how many country fences are valid brainfuck.
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Chris, we’re good. As others have pointed out, sometimes an edgy joke gets an edgy response.
This is what is considered edgy nowadays?
being on edge : tense, irritable
In other words-- GP recounted a memory of tense, anxious feelings about working with Perl.
OP was unwittingly made edgy by reading this and anthropomorphized Perl to express said feelings of tension and anxiety back to GP.
Seems plausible to me.
Well that's nice, but what percentage of paint splatters are valid APL? on edit: actually how many country fences are valid brainfuck.
We should run a random number generator connected to a Perl script driving a small tentacle, set a fit function of Global Peace in the Universe, and let machine do the rest.
Spoken like someone possessing the supreme programmer's virtue of laziness.
That's a fun read. I once wrote an entire CMS in Perl. I still wake up, screaming, sometimes. [UPDATE] It appears as if my flippant remark caused upset. I am sincerely sorry that this was the case. No offense was meant. @peteretep, you have my sincere apology. It was a flippant remark. At the time I wrote it (mid-1990s), Perl was the best way to write portable server-side code. I took the time to learn it, and got fa…
That's a fun read. I once wrote an entire CMS in Perl. I still wake up, screaming, sometimes. [UPDATE] It appears as if my flippant remark caused upset. I am sincerely sorry that this was the case. No offense was meant. @peteretep, you have my sincere apology. It was a flippant remark. At the time I wrote it (mid-1990s), Perl was the best way to write portable server-side code. I took the time to learn it, and got fa…
That's a fun read. I once wrote an entire CMS in Perl. I still wake up, screaming, sometimes. [UPDATE] It appears as if my flippant remark caused upset. I am sincerely sorry that this was the case. No offense was meant. @peteretep, you have my sincere apology. It was a flippant remark. At the time I wrote it (mid-1990s), Perl was the best way to write portable server-side code. I took the time to learn it, and got fa…