Friday, 2009-05-08

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Alex|grantc, nice :)09:17
Alex|It is a syntax error to write FORTRAN while not wearing a blue tie.09:17
grantc:)09:17
grantchttp://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html09:18
grantci like the ruby one the most, mainly because i think it's true :)09:18
Alex|:)09:18
grantc1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion, concurrency, or proper capitalization.09:19
grantcall very good09:19
Alex|1959 :D09:19
grantcWe had a Capitalization Of Boilerplate Oriented Language in university at the end of the course - for some unknown reason i skipped it ;)09:20
Alex|there is so much truth in this article :)09:21
Alex| Alain Colmerauer designs the logic language Prolog. His goal is to create a language with the intelligence of a two year old. He proves he has reached his goal by showing a Prolog session that says "No." to every query.09:21
grantclol09:21
Alex|C++ is so complex that programs must be sent to the future to be compiled by the Skynet09:23
Alex|... Build times suffer. ... :D09:23
grantcspeaking of C++ - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/07/verity_stob_cplusplus/09:23
Alex|200F.. :)09:24
Alex|int i = {}; -  It means int i = 0; but brings the twin gifts of prolixity and obscurity to the party.09:26
grantcall good stuff09:27
Alex|indeed :)09:27
Alex|just yesterday I had a chat with someone about the joy of having VBA trying to access a socket via a crappy old C DLL09:28
grantcthat sounds like fun09:29
Alex|oh yes...09:29
grantcredirect them to http://stackoverflow.com09:29
Alex|the dll didn't handle strings correctly so everything that came back from it had to be null terminated, etc... and that in VBA09:30
grantcsweet09:31
Alex|still reading the other one... just came to 1987 perl.... :D09:32
grantc:D09:32
grantclook at the java and C# ones09:32
Alex| "There Is Only One Way to Do It." Poland becomes nervous. - hrhr09:33
grantcthat sounded more like RoR09:33
Alex|Python :)09:33
Alex|hrhr, yeah, java and c# are good :)09:34
grantcsure but when i read that i thought more of RoR than python09:34
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