AmonWhy do people faint at the sight of plain-text code?
All programming languages claim to be for humans. Doesn’t make them good at it.
Nobody said all humans
idunnololzIm sorry but which humans were whitespace and brainfuck made for.
No-one said they had to be easily read for humans.
obviously the sadistic ones! those PLs certainly weren’t made for the computer’s benefit
Masochists
edinbruhFor esolang nerds. They enjoy the existence of the language, not its usage
Or Java?
If anything, that only proves the point even harder.
Making something to make humans suffer is still making it for humans
paequ2I only code in binary-encoded programming languages.
Real programmers modulate their voice and scream precisely into the microphone such that the recorded audio file is valid machine code.
…there are languages that aren’t written in plaintext???
I only code in emoji
Nicht BurningTurtleIs this you?
I take it back
I’m sorry
I’m so, so sorry
Wouldn’t you rather want to code in this? github.com/Gen-Alpha-Inc/skibidi-lang
I’m going to retreat to my safe space and write some shim code in C now, thx
Off the top of my head, Microsoft Excel, Max/MSP, and Piet
I was going to post the whitespace programming language but this wins
I heard there was a programming language where you programmed a tree, that you could only manipulate manipulate in a “IDE” that looked a bit like Microsoft Word and saved the “source code” as a binary file.
Found the infos: youtu.be/vcFBwt1nu2Ut=479
The Worst Programming Language Ever - Mark Rendle - NDC Oslo 2021
“No-code”, scratch, etc
BlackmistI’ve recently had to help the wife with some VRChat “Udon” language.
I mean I get it, all the stuff is like the underlying shit in a parser I wrote years ago to speed up execution. And looking up the name for that, it’s an abstract syntax tree.
It’s just I don’t know why you would try to write stuff in it directly. All the tutorials have this mass of on screen spaghetti for “if a=45 then b.visible=false”.
It’s like everyone gets this idea that coding is hard and a bunch of text, and then they spit it out on screen so no none of us can understand it at first glance.
Malbolge
OwlText code is overwhelming
Text is overwhelming (for me)
I like spaced out, low density information. I can process it better.
Thank you. If Ikea could write directions in Python, I would be sooooo happy.
import common_sense
from toolbox import AllenKey
<snip>
allen_key = AllenKey(size=4mm)
allen_key.screw(screw1)
I wish I understood this point of view better. I crunch through information, so I want it to be densely packed. I’d love to know why and how this helps you so I can better help my peers that are like you?
I don’t think there is a solution
Maybe codeblocks or the Ue5 visual script thing xD
I’m not looking for a solution, I want to gain empathy so I can be a better leader for my peers and followers. I want to understand how you get through life and what affects this thing that makes you diverse from me so that I can positively impact the people around me.
Oh ok
I’m not a professional in this, I’m afraid that I can’t help you
I love how he said what he said and you dump this 5line paragraph on him 😘👌
Comment sections. How do they work?
i don’t think brainfuck or ook are actually meant for humans. more like against humans
Or Malebolge.
imho they’re still made for humans. But the goal is to discuss them rather than code with them n_n
They are very much aimed at humans.
Crafted to hurt humans, but still.
LLVM IR wasn’t made for humans
It… Kind of was though, IR gives us a way to translate higher level concepts to lower (but not the lowest) level representation. It also gives us a way to optimize before machine translation.
but it’s produced by a machine (front end) for a machine (back end) so they can talk to each other
Yeah but a human can still interact with it. Mostly for optimizations or making more translations, but generally “it’s not for humans” would be a bit overloading
queermunist she/herDifferent brains.
When I took over programming for my robotics team in highschool I switched from whatever visual flowchart bullshit they were using to robotc. I can’t make heads or tails of programming without actual words that literally say what the program does.
JoYoI found the web dev
insomniac_lemonFor me, I think it’s that most common-language things that I happen to look at are 500-line+ with non-obvious short names (initialisms? might be an issue with low-level). Some of it might be down to optimization or language features/requirements, or not using libraries. Though I also don’t hate whitespace so it may just be my brain.
The other side of the coin is that interpreted languages (being more readable) are slower(+single-threaded) and have other limitations/issues. I have some hope that Python’s update with JIT and no-GIL may change that, but integrating it into other tools is still an issue so I haven’t looked into it.
The one language that has clicked for me is Nim-lang (compiles-to-C, interop). I haven’t done enough real projects, but I like the syntactic sugar and UFCS. Not sure if that’s the best way to say it, but it’s like the options that exist can be used to make code more concise. Something that seems small like how you can write conditions or loops can make a big difference.
What is non-plain-tezxt code?
‘Nocode’, scratch, NODE-red, etc.
It took me looking at unfamiliar programming languages and realizing that I could read most of them without really knowing them for me to realize I probably could learn to at least read another language.
It’s been years since then and I’m still probably shit at Spanish, but just like programming languages regular languages were made by humans to communicate with other humans, you’re capable of understanding any of them given a reasonable amount of time and guidance.
you just made me inadvertently realize that’s exactly why AI will never take development jobs.
Well, unless it creates its own language that we can’t read.
Just give it three more months.
I think it’s “learned helplessness”, sadly. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
Like much of math, people are often eager to talk about the cool stuff and make it sound hard because they are proud they understood it. For a newcomer, this is just a brick in the face.
Exactly!
Literally everything we ever came up with is comprehensible by humans, and is likely to be comprehensible by a layman given enough time and making sure prerequisites are filled.
In fact, it takes a good explanation that would click with a given person’s experience and level of expertise to make anyone understand anything.
It’s just that sometimes people need that specific thing X, and normally it’s needed to those who have some knowledge in another specific thing Y, and it gets expected that a person needing X knows Y (which is not necessarily true)
This is especially common in the world of computers. Everyone uses them, everyone has to troubleshoot them, but not everyone is the system administrator, to which 85% of the guides often seem to be addressed.
People who know math make math sound hard? Eehh, that does not seem to track. Math can become incredibly difficult, and even the cryptic terminologies are a way to alleviate the difficulty.
gandalf_der_12teA lot of people really have difficulty with maths and programming.
The way i imagine it, programming is something non-real, something metaphysical, or how you want to call it. And a lot of people even plainly reject that such a thing meaningfully exists. Think about how many people reject the existence of “spirits”, “demons”, or “god”, based on nothing else but the argument that it is not tangible. Something similar is going on with maths and programming.
I like this only because it makes me feel like a wizard