The Pervert's Guide to Computer Programming Languages (2017) [video]

Re:The Pervert's Guide to Computer Programming Languages (20... by dleslie on Saturday April 18, 2020 @08:05PM (#22912210)

Having watched the video, read this post, and written serious amounts of non-trivial code in Javascript, PHP, SQL, C, Assembly, Perl, Regex, Java, C++, Python, C#, Ruby, and Scheme...

I don't disagree.

The "melancholy" hit especially hard.

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Re:The Pervert's Guide to Computer Programming Languages (20... by type0 on Saturday April 18, 2020 @08:53PM (#22912476)

> The "melancholy" hit especially hard.

Romanticism of Lisp: how awesome it could have been if I were writing this on a modern Lisp machine.

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Re:The Pervert's Guide to Computer Programming Languages (20... by dleslie on Saturday April 18, 2020 @09:14PM (#22912622)

I use Emacs in no small part because of elisp... Oh dear.

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Re:The Pervert's Guide to Computer Programming Languages (20... by m3047 on Saturday April 18, 2020 @09:05PM (#22912562)

I think romantically of MACRO-32 and the VAX silicon it ran on. (I have a CVAX2 chip pressed into a luggage tag somewhere around here...)

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Re:The Pervert's Guide to Computer Programming Languages (20... by pdr2020 on Saturday April 18, 2020 @10:55PM (#22913106)

I disagree on the Javascript count, specifically modern, statically typed Javascript.

I might choose another language for perf characteristics that JS cannot match, but otherwise Javascript is a truly expressive lang right now.

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Re:The Pervert's Guide to Computer Programming Languages (20... by chx on Sunday April 19, 2020 @12:59AM (#22913641)

Do you mean TypeScript / Flow / Dart or did some version of ECMAScript I am unaware of introduce a type system?

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