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Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

Plastic Snake posted:

welcome to yospos

:tipshat:

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stoutfish
Oct 8, 2012

by zen death robot
a p-lang is p much like portegause or maybe latin i duno

java is like coffe or something so putting a script in coffe seems dumb

this is the extant of my programming knowldege

Ericadia
Oct 31, 2007

Not A Unicorn
C++ is when you drop nails and pennies on the inside of a grand piano.

Sniep
Mar 28, 2004

All I needed was that fatty blunt...



King of Breakfast

Moist von Lipwig posted:

what's a p-lang? a language that starts with 'p'?

why is javascript terrible?

its shagger lumping together prolog, pascal and powershell as being poo poo

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

Sniep posted:

its shagger lumping together prolog, pascal and powershell as being poo poo

i thought it was perl, python, and pjavascript

double sulk
Jul 2, 2010

plangs:

python
perl
php
ruby
javascript

"php is the exception which proves the rule." --tbc

Nomnom Cookie
Aug 30, 2009



tef posted:

*stores local time as utc* *dst changes by law* *all appointments an hour off*

most of the time this is acceptable

just like 99% of java code only supports unicode BMP and no one notices or cares

uG
Apr 23, 2003

by Ralp
maybe if you're a webdev

tef
May 30, 2004

-> some l-system crap ->

Nomnom Cookie posted:

most of the time this is acceptable

just like 99% of java code only supports unicode BMP and no one notices or cares

do you work on the android team :3:

DONT THREAD ON ME
Oct 1, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
Floss Finder

Ericadia posted:

C++ is when you drop nails and pennies on the inside of a grand piano.

uh no that's called prepared piano

Nomnom Cookie
Aug 30, 2009



tef posted:

do you work on the android team :3:

nope. but i do think that ui is an annoyance and im basically only aware of it as something that provides an excuse for the interesting stuff so i can see how you might get that impression

qntm
Jun 17, 2009
*has unit test which subtracts time in new york from time in london and checks that result is 5 hours*

*bush moves dst*

*test fails every six months, defect is raised*

*test passes again after 2 weeks, defect is cancelled*

tef
May 30, 2004

-> some l-system crap ->
*adds one to year* *crashes in leap year*

Plastic Snake
Mar 2, 2005
For Halloween or scaring people.
*uses c# datetime library* *never has an issue*

coaxmetal
Oct 21, 2010

I flamed me own dad

Moist von Lipwig posted:

what's a p-lang? a language that starts with 'p'?

why is javascript terrible?

why is sherk pis

uG
Apr 23, 2003

by Ralp
*uses c#* *never has sex again*

coaxmetal
Oct 21, 2010

I flamed me own dad
"p-lang" is what shaggar uses as shorthand for "programming language"

coaxmetal
Oct 21, 2010

I flamed me own dad
the p is for programming

uG
Apr 23, 2003

by Ralp
php isnt really programming

coaxmetal
Oct 21, 2010

I flamed me own dad
yeah I think it stands for "personal home page", so none of the p's are for programming

jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord
programming hypertext preprocessor

X-BUM-RAIDER-X
May 7, 2008
why does everyone elses code look so superfluous and messy compared to my own , am i doign something wrong??????

MononcQc
May 29, 2007

yase it happens whenever you take the time to understand your own code but not the code of others and suddenly you're like "but how!!"

Cocoa Crispies
Jul 20, 2001

Vehicular Manslaughter!

Pillbug

MononcQc posted:

"but how!!"

X-BUM-RAIDER-X
May 7, 2008
im a little disappointed that how!! never re-regged, i never got to fully disect his intricate knowledge of software engineering practices

Posting Principle
Dec 10, 2011

by Ralp
i miss thinking that 10k lines was a big system

i dont miss thinking i know how to rewrite everything i come across instead of learning it

JawnV6
Jul 4, 2004

So hot ...

OBAMA BIN LinkedIn posted:

im a little disappointed that how!! never re-regged, i never got to fully disect his intricate knowledge of software engineering practices

how!! do i miss thee
let me count the ways

Cocoa Crispies
Jul 20, 2001

Vehicular Manslaughter!

Pillbug
but firsrt you have to reinvent counting because everyone else has been overcomplicating it

X-BUM-RAIDER-X
May 7, 2008

Cocoa Crispies posted:

but firsrt you have to reinvent counting because everyone else has been overcomplicating it

teheres not enough abstractions for 1+1

Symbolic Butt
Mar 22, 2009

(_!_)
Buglord
I never thought of javascript as a plang, I feel like it's on a category of its own: javascriptlangs

Squinty Applebottom
Jan 1, 2013

Symbolic Butt posted:

I never thought of javascript as a plang, I feel like it's on a category of its own: greatlangs

FamDav
Mar 29, 2008
if you job a computer these are the representations of numbers you should know

1) binary
2) 2-adic
3) some kind of arbitrary-precision type
3) IEEE floats/doubles
4) church numerals

Janitor Prime
Jan 22, 2004

PC LOAD LETTER

What da fuck does that mean

Fun Shoe
Everything but binary is for spergs unless you're some hardware engineer

Posting Principle
Dec 10, 2011

by Ralp

OBAMA BIN LinkedIn posted:

teheres not enough abstractions for 1+1

http://www.mikedoesweb.com/2012/jquery-math-finally-solved/

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

FamDav posted:

4) church numerals

is this a religious thing, or was there some guy named church who thought them up?

X-BUM-RAIDER-X
May 7, 2008
i knew a guy who at university tried to rewrite jquery for a coursework. instead of using jquery.

X-BUM-RAIDER-X
May 7, 2008
let me tell you about how student programmers are complete trash and also every programmer who isnt a student

Cocoa Crispies
Jul 20, 2001

Vehicular Manslaughter!

Pillbug

pretty sure abez did that troll on stack homeworkflow pretty often

Cocoa Crispies
Jul 20, 2001

Vehicular Manslaughter!

Pillbug
poo poo, "timothy goatse" is definitely an abez account

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Symbolic Butt
Mar 22, 2009

(_!_)
Buglord
I wish I knew some basic number representation poo poo before I attempted to do anything in Fortran.



oh the pain, don't make this mistake fellow terrible programmers

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