• fossphi@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Oh god, I feel this. Why can’t there be a sane language‽

    • xavier666@lemm.ee
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      3 days ago

      There are 2 types of programming languages

      • The type everyone keeps complaining about
      • The type no one uses
    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      But the Lord came down to see the city OS and the tower app the people were building. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking programming the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

      So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city OS. That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

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      2 days ago

      Computer programming, regardless of language, is hard. The computer does exactly what you tell it to.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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        Yes. That being said, it matters which language you choose. COBOL is always a bad choice, unless writing in COBOL is the whole point. There isn’t really a universal best choice, either. Python is often a good one, but if you’re doing something big it will become this meme.