The things you realise when browsing XKCD...
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@Gribnit said in The things you realise when browsing XKCD...:
I just hate productivity.
You have to cater for the kind of people that need to debug (=read) their code, because they don't write perfect code from the get go.
I know it sounds stupid. After all, writing perfect code from the start saves so much trouble later.
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I write perfect code, then I keep running into compiler bugs, cosmic rays and quantum uncertainty. It's the only logical explanation for all the bugs QA keep finding
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@Gribnit said in The things you realise when browsing XKCD...:
@cheong said in The things you realise when browsing XKCD...:
@dkf said in The things you realise when browsing XKCD...:
@Gribnit said in The things you realise when browsing XKCD...:
Must've been perversely complicated for AWK not to be the better parser.
Probably a recursive context-sensitive grammar. Perl's “regular expressions” can match that sort of thing directly, which is in my mind a perfect demonstration of what's wrong with Perl. Sane(r) systems keep that sort of thing out precisely to retain some semblance of tractability and debuggability; Perl just jumps in head first and starts playing nookie with Codethulhu.
At least with Perl the decidability of such things is easy: I decide to not use Perl!
Well, I didn't learn Perl because it's a "write-only language". :P
I just hate productivity.
Duh. You're here.
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@kazitor said in The things you realise when browsing XKCD...:
a Waste-to-Energy plant
Not to be confused with Energy-to-Waste, which is more commonly referred to as “cryptocurrency”
Funny enough, that still looks similar.
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@cheong said in The things you realise when browsing XKCD...:
@dkf said in The things you realise when browsing XKCD...:
@Gribnit said in The things you realise when browsing XKCD...:
Must've been perversely complicated for AWK not to be the better parser.
Probably a recursive context-sensitive grammar. Perl's “regular expressions” can match that sort of thing directly, which is in my mind a perfect demonstration of what's wrong with Perl. Sane(r) systems keep that sort of thing out precisely to retain some semblance of tractability and debuggability; Perl just jumps in head first and starts playing nookie with Codethulhu.
At least with Perl the decidability of such things is easy: I decide to not use Perl!
Well, I didn't learn Perl because it's a "write-only language". :P
APL is a write-only language. (I'm tempted to say, "It's all Greek to me," except that that would be a cringeworthy pun, so I won't say it.)
Perl is just slightly opaque.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in The things you realise when browsing XKCD...:
that would be a cringeworthy pun
Redundant. { cringeworthy puns } ≡ { puns }
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@HardwareGeek said in The things you realise when browsing XKCD...:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in The things you realise when browsing XKCD...:
that would be a cringeworthy pun
Redundant. { cringeworthy puns } ≡ { puns }
Hmm. "Unusually cringeworthy"?
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@HardwareGeek said in The things you realise when browsing XKCD...:
Redundant. { cringeworthy puns } ≡ { puns }
Can you point on this doll where puns touched you when you were younger?
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@Zecc said in The things you realise when browsing XKCD...:
@HardwareGeek said in The things you realise when browsing XKCD...:
Redundant. { cringeworthy puns } ≡ { puns }
Can you point on this doll where puns touched you when you were younger?
How much younger? Does any pun count, like, at cons, do they need to be Official, or does a really good cosplay count? Can I mix and match Bigs and Franks?
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@Zecc said in The things you realise when browsing XKCD...:
@HardwareGeek said in The things you realise when browsing XKCD...:
Redundant. { cringeworthy puns } ≡ { puns }
Can you point on this doll where puns touched you when you were younger?
What if the stick is missing from the backside of the doll?
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@Zecc said in The things you realise when browsing XKCD...:
@HardwareGeek said in The things you realise when browsing XKCD...:
Redundant. { cringeworthy puns } ≡ { puns }
Can you point on this doll where puns touched you when you were younger?
How detailed is the doll? Can I swap the pins for a pair of jumper cables?
