nixCraft π§Please tell me your favourite programming language without telling me the language π
particleflux@nixCraft if err != nil { return err }
Psyhackological@particleflux @nixCraft nil would suffice I think
monoxane β@nixCraft defer recover()
DarkCyberman@nixCraft will blow your leg off.
@nixCraft @psyhackological "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off" - https://www.stroustrup.com/quotes.html
Sam@nixCraft sadly it's ... IEnumerable<T>
niko@nixCraft Blaise
Mr. Hmpf@nixCraft Shakes fist at meters of compiler error output
WildPowerHammer 
@nixCraft
In which sense favourite?.. In some sense this
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John Maxwell@nixCraft Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative.
Nils Ballmann@nixCraft yeah, indentation matters.
bazkie π©πΌβπ» bitplanes π΅
Anopka@nixCraft "Spam Egg Spam Spam Bacon + Spam"
lily 
@nixCraft microsoft java.
TheFerrango@nixCraft (((((())))))
@nixCraft noobs will claim my favorite language is very risky and complex, but that's just because they're noobs
Howie
bemyak@nixCraft It's blazingly fast!
Laurent FRANCOISE@nixCraft goto label;
:hal_9000:
Gina@nixCraft "Why use many words when you can use little?"
@nixCraft alternatively my least favorite; why not use as MANY words as possible? #Java #Vietnamflashbacks
ouroukaye
@ouroukaye @nixCraft I worked in gov at the time, so we were always at least 4 Java versions behind π₯²
DistroWatch@nixCraft xor AX, AX
Aaron@hosford42 @distrowatch @nixCraft So, as long as we're here: The time I used that trick to help a class of 30 students cheat on a homework assignment 1/n
@hosford42 @distrowatch @nixCraft Time: mid 80s. Context: I am a college student working the help desk at my school's computer center.
The school computer at the time was a CDC Cyber 170/something-or-other. It was a very weird beast from an architectural view. 60 bit word, designed to run Fortan really fast. Seymour Cray's design, from before he left to start Cray Research. 2/n
The school computer at the time was a CDC Cyber 170/something-or-other. It was a very weird beast from an architectural view. 60 bit word, designed to run Fortan really fast. Seymour Cray's design, from before he left to start Cray Research. 2/n
@hosford42 @distrowatch @nixCraft Theoretically, my job is strictly to help students with the gear and procedures for logging in and so forth. We were explicitly not supposed to help with actual coursework.
Which didn't stop people from asking for help with homework constantly
So, one day, my friend Eric and I are at work, and a kid comes up and asks for help with homework in the intro assembly programming course. While I'm starting the "We aren't allowed to help with homework" spiel... 3/n
@hosford42 @distrowatch @nixCraft I read the actual assignment, and realize that the professor has inadvertently handed out an impossible task.
"Write a macro which swaps the contents of two registers while leaving all other registers unchanged."
Except by using the xor trick, you can't do that on that machine. The professor was used to PDP-11s or Vaxen, where you have a stack.
So we explained the xor trick to everyone who asked for help. 4/n
@hosford42 @distrowatch @nixCraft To his credit, after calling us on the carpet, he did say "Oh" and apologize to his class. That assignment ended up not counting.
We were still officially in trouble, but nobody cared to push it.
Julien AvΓ©rous β π«π·πͺπΊπΊπ¦```
bool foo(const void *ptr, size_t size)
{
struct {
uint16_t val1;
uint8_t val2;
uint64_t val3;
} __attribute__((packed)) EntryStruct;
if (size != sizeof(EntryStruct))
return false;
const struct EntryStruct *entry = ptr;
β¦
}
```
Π‘Π°ΡΠ° ΠΠΎΡΡ, here we go again...""" @nixCraft I'm not sure spaces translate properly across clients """
if they_do:
print("Cool.")
Jose Sabater@nixCraft Explicit is better than implicit.
GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)@nixCraft
DATA: lt_kna1 TYPE SORTED TABLE OF kna1 WITH KEY kunnr.
LOOP AT lt_kna1 ASSIGNING FIELD-SYMBOL(<ls_kna1>).
ADD 1 TO lv_number.
SELECT SINGLE * FROM kna1
WHERE kunnr = @iv_kunnr
INTO @DATA(ls_kna1).
It's really good. For data wrangling. Which most business software is doing.
jelte@nixCraft I can't tell you, but perhaps I can give you a few pointers.
nico@nixCraft I can do this: !!$too
Golden Bunny of Destiny π―@nixCraft import antigravity
Simon Levesque@nixCraft meaningfully verbose
@simonlevesque @nixCraft Java?
Edit: oh sorry, you said meaningfully.
Ramin Honary@nixCraft itβs all about the monads.
Attila Kinali@nixCraft I write everything in a single line. Of Klingon.
Breizh
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pl.language_name AS programming_language
FROM programming_languages pl
WHERE pl.favourite_language = 'Y'
;
pl.language_name AS programming_language
FROM programming_languages pl
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alpharee@nixCraft You
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it
right
tpaau@nixCraft Blazingly fast π and memory-safe π
Yoshi Walsh@nixCraft In order to make a working linter for webapps they first had to design an entirely new language.
Dietmar aka DL2SBA