Steph (house move version)writing some code to read data into a dataclass object from a database, which sounds easy, but past me wrote the code that writes this data into the database in the first place
and past me was an ARSEHOLE.
listen sometimes I love that my background is in physics/astrophysics/research because I am an Extremely Good Problem Solver because of it, I'm used to not knowing how to do something and I am good at finding out how
but wow, I really could have done with some formal education in software development before I started developing software!
oh god I think I need regex for this, I'm going to cry
Carl B. Latro@astronomerritt
When they get around to censoring computer languages I hope they begin and end with regex.
My favourite language is Rebol, which, despite being mostly abandoned is still usable and doesn't need regex because it has 'parse', which is a sub-language that makes sense...
@BLatro This is interesting. It's very clean and readable.
@astronomerritt
It's a lovely language, but came with an old-fashioned business model just as the world was moving to open-sourced languages.
Download the 'View' version of it if you want a play with it. That'll give you graphics as well...
https://www.rebol.com/download-view.html
@astronomerritt
Rebol Hello Worlds:
Text version...
>> print "Hello World"
Hello World
Graphical version. This opens a little window with "Hello World" in it...
>> view layout [text "Hello World"]