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#WritersCoffeeClub June 22. What's the best piece of writing advice you eve… |
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Post #AvO8FE59gO4pwv4Cae by [email protected] |
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@cstross Perl. Aaaugh. I wrote Perl professionally for a few years. It has a… |
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Post #AvO8FECbEi22K0Y9C4 by [email protected] |
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@lemgandi @cstross Don't you mean 'write-only language'? .. I have … |
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@lemgandi @cstross As a consultant, I used whatever language the client's t… |
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Post #AvSgD740youYg1XM9o by [email protected] |
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@lemgandi @cstross The reputation was for being "write-only", and was… |
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Post #AvSgD7BoVp9L4DBaJU by [email protected] |
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@sjn @lemgandi @cstross That's only true if you never ever work on any code… |
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Post #AvSgD7Hq9PyDMu0Ohs by [email protected] |
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@resuna @sjn @lemgandi @cstross Absolutely not my experience, and I've work… |
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@barubary @sjn @lemgandi @cstross So you just don't mind the half a dozen g… |
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Post #AvSgD7UFPHtXzNoJ2u by [email protected] |
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@resuna What half a dozen variations?C (C++, Java, PHP, JavaScript, ...):// sin… |
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Post #AvSgD7ad1Z00JAnOzY by [email protected] |
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@barubary The two "C" examples you give are the same picture. Blocks … |
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Post #AvSgD8Amr7vG7JiHLs by [email protected] |
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@barubary And I am not a stan for Python or C++. But they don't have gratui… |
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@resuna OK, then let's talk about basics. What's the difference between… |
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Post #AvSgDt0SjKafMuFCHg by [email protected] |
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@cstross I am actually crook at Larry Wall for saying that and then implementin… |
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Post #AvSgHUym0MKu0XB0ka by [email protected] |
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@resuna You are technically correct about the C grammar: A block ("compoun… |
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Post #AvSgHV5ra00WMWUfnk by [email protected] |
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@barubary yeah OK I forgot about that stupid quirk of perl. You’re just makin… |
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@lemgandi Perl is perfectly maintainable! It's no worse than C. You just ne… |
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Post #AvSgPPJGy1sok0XIjQ by [email protected] |
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@sjn @cstross Ah, you are talking about maintaining code you wrote. I had that … |
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@cstross "we live in a world where everyone wants everything to be perfect… |
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@oldgeek @cstross Yeh, also cf https://www.ioccc.org/ . But common commercial … |
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(perl has been my "dirty little secret". The thing I have used becaus… |
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@resuna @cstross That was why I gave up on Perl and switched to Ruby. I saw tha… |
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@barubary yes you can force C syntax into a bit of redundancy if you do things … |
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Post #AvSgvuSqffowdDVtuS by [email protected] |
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@barubary and I don’t know why you’re trying to get me to defend C++ and py… |
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@resuna @lemgandi @cstross With apologies, but that claim is not only false, bu… |
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@mathew @cstross I was so hopeful when the rumors started that Perl6 was going … |
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@jaark @cstross Oops, you right. I'll leave it as a monument to my stupidit… |
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@cstross Perl is the equivalent of the Sonic Screwdriver, sure you can blow up … |
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@lemgandi @cstross You can write unmaintainable code in any language, and beaut… |
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@resuna @barubary @lemgandi @cstross Of course there's nothing to mind here… |
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Post #AvtHqmFIY3vK6lY7Y8 by [email protected] |
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@sjn @barubary @lemgandi @cstross Reflective languages like lisp do a much bett… |
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@resuna @sjn (IF foo (bar))(WHEN foo (bar))(UNLESS (NOT foo) (bar))(AND foo (ba… |
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@barubary @sjn They are functions, not language syntax elements. Not only is it… |
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@resuna @barubary @lemgandi @cstross In these cases, I usually think of a quote… |
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@resuna @barubary The postfix 'if' in Perl is very handy and actually q… |
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@davepar @barubary Which is another weird syntax quirk in Perl |
