One-liners considered harmful

The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague. In the case of a well-known conversational programming language I have been told from various sides that as soon as a programming community is equipped with a terminal for it, a specific phenomenon occurs that even has a well-established name: it is called "the one-liners". It takes one of two different forms: one programmer places a one-line program on the desk of another and either he proudly tells what it does and adds the question "Can you code this in less symbols?" —as if this were of any conceptual relevance!— or he just asks "Guess what it does!". From this observation we must conclude that this language as a tool is an open invitation for clever tricks; and while exactly this may be the explanation for some of its appeal, viz. to those who like to show how clever they are, I am sorry, but I must regard this as one of the most damning things that can be said about a programming language.

Says a Python programmer hurt by indentation.

More like Perl, amirite?

perl -e '&*()£^(*""&*)&"^%&"$)"$&*&$*^$"&$^"$(£)&$^(")$)_$"*$'

Open Office in perl

>>2
Says a Haskell programmer hurt by his language's utter uselessness

>>4
The pound symbol is really a perl operator?

>>6
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsyn.html#Comments-comment-%23

>>1
yes. but that doesn't mean that

return reduce(function(e,t){return e.value + t;}, 0, list);

is not better that

for(int i = 0, t = 0; i < list.length; i++)
     t += list[i].value;
return t;

that is, code density can be a good thing, if you're willing to avoid the forced gvr and learn a few good abstractions.

>>8
Of course it doesn't. Why did you even feel the need to bring that out?

>>8
Python:
<code>return sum(e.value for e in list)</code>
Learn to accept that GvR is smarter than you. He knows what you really want to do.

>>10
Like what you really wanted to do was use BBCode in post?


                             __
               ---_ ...... _/_ -
              /  .      ./ .'*\ \
              : '         /__-'   \.
             /                      )
           _/                  >   .'
        /   .   .       _.-" /  .'
         \           __/"     /.'/|
          \ '--  .-" /      //' |\|    //`'''`'',
            \|..\ |/Oo.   //_ _ |/|   // PYTHON `.,
           .'    \:____.,/|_ _ _|\|  //',,,.'``.,,.'
         / _____  \___/.' | _ _ |/| //
         | / ||  \\---\|  \ _ _ \\\//
         ||  ||   \\  ||   \ _ _ \|\
         co  co    co co

reduce sounds faggy. more like foldr

>>13
But it's easier to pronounce.

>>14
One word, cdr, thread over.

>>15
cddadddadadadddadaddaaadddddaaaadadadaaadr

>>15
One way to pronounce cdr, cudder. Thread over.

lol

>>17
I pronounce it "see-dee-ar".

>>19
I pronounce it ``tail''.

>>20
What about caddar, smartass?

>>21
Cudderderar

It's actually pronounced cadre, rhymes with sabre.

>>20
CDR is not TAIL
REST and CDR perform the same operation but they are not the same

>>23
"cadre" and "sabre" don't rhyme

>>25
yes they do. they're pronounced /'kad.re/ and /'sab.re/.

It's hard to define
when your code's on one line

>>26
/'sab.re/
Oh wow.

>>27
This may surprise you, but I can't believe I started such a stupid meme.

>>29
It's hard to be surprised
when you're travelling backwards through time

This may surprise you, but you've just enjoyed a brief emotional state that is the result of experiencing an unexpected event.

>>28
that's how all words that end in Cre are in english.

>>32
That's not true. For example, ``bizarre''.

>>33
Or ``sabre'', for that matter.

>>10
dumb young boy, I already know the sum function. I just compared two simple code bits I thought in the moment.
and reduce is an awesome function for all of its uses, even those gvr does not like. and if we really wanna aim for shortness, I'd say let's "sum . map value".

>>33
ok, all words that match [^aeghioruy]re$.

>>34
you must be thinking of "saber".
unless you're one of those dumb britfags who write things like "programmre" and "doour".

>>36
Don't forget "gaol".

Fucking Britfags.

>>36
you must be thinking of "saber"
``Sabre'' and ``saber'' are the same word. There's no such thing as a ``sob ray''.

>>38
Fucking Britfags.

>>39
>>39
Take your off-topic hate somewhere where it will be appreciated.