>>40
For examples of what happens when people think they're too cool to read and that they've got it all figured out, see: PHP, Coffeescript, Go, and to a lesser degree, FIOC.
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Anonymous2013-03-17 10:51
liberal college kids
The place is infested with "government paternalism is bad; and by the way I don't sympathize with the poor"-style psychopaths.
>>51
Exactly, a few. They didn't even know what proper sum types are since after the 70s and put null into their language. Oh, and they think that they can ``consider'' putting generics later on, lol.
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Anonymous2013-03-17 22:35
For examples of what happens when people think they're too cool to read and that they've got it all figured out, see: PHP, Coffeescript, Go, and to a lesser degree, FIOC.
Every ``language designer'' should be forced to code in Scheme for a few years before really attempting a language design. Imagine a world, where the most used languages have scoping rules that aren't batshit insane.
>>57
“Language designers” should be forced to rigorously define the semantics of every element of their language -- down to each digit of each numeral -- and implement it in an archaic specification language.