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[–] whileloop 133 points 11 months ago (13 children)

This could be so much longer.

Killing children, class systems, so many programming language names, the ridiculous ways equality and order-of-operations are done sometimes. Plenty of recursion jokes to be made. Big O notation. Any other ideas?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (2 children)

GOTO is the only thing that makes sense. It's the "high-level" concepts like for-loops, functions and list comprehension that ruined programming.

series.append(series[k-1]+series[k-2]) for k in range(2,5)]

RAVINGS DREAMT UP BY THE UTTERLY DERANGED

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I started coding with TurboBasic, which included the helpful innovation of GOTO {label} instead of GOTO {line number}, which allowed you to have marginally-better-looking code like:

GOTO bob
...
bob:
{do some useless shit}
return

which meant you essentially had actual, normal methods and you didn't have to put line numbers in front of everything. The problem was that labels (like variables) could be as long as you wanted them to be, but the compiler only looked at the first two letters. Great fun debugging that sort of nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT ONLY LOOKS AT THE FIRST TWO LETTERS WHAT

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

if goto make sense why don't you go to get some bitches

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Because "get some bitches" is an invalid instruction

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