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[–] MyFairJulia 96 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Missed the opportunity to draw in a teapot for HTML.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Error 418

spoilerI am not a teapot.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

C#: So you just took java's essay and changed the name?

/s

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

remove the /s switch, it's funnier

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This, but unironically. That is basically exactly how it started (after "J#" IIRC), minus a few wrinkles ironed out because if you're reinventing the wheel, might as well try not to make the same flaws the old one had. Of course things branched out from there and C# has been a very different beast from Java since the 2000s.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I the beginning, C# was basically "Java, the good parts", developed from scratch as a new language though. J# was developed in parallel as a replacement for Visual J++, and could run essentially unmodified Java code.

At a previous workplace, we had projects that were combined C# and J# projects. It was a bit strange.

[–] MyFairJulia 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No sir, i also copied stuff from C++, C, Haskell and Delphi.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Welp the man behind c# also created Delphi so technically he didn't copy

[–] MyFairJulia 2 points 1 year ago

Inventor of Delphi: "Hey, can i copy your homework?"

Inventor to himself: "Yes, just make it look like you made it yourself."

[–] vickychen 55 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Latex creates the most beautiful documents

[–] Magister 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's incredible, I remember in the 90s in university, some students were king of Latex and made incredible beautiful paper full of complicated mathematical formula and such

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

The best feedback I ever got on an assignment in grad school was "wow, your homework looks like a textbook!"

It may not always be correct, but it's always pretty!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Magister 1 points 1 year ago
[–] RogueTyre 3 points 1 year ago

Definitely but such a bitch to use. Why do I have to learn literally a new language to finish my shitty 4 page labs report...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The C++ one doesn't make sense

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think templates is what he's making fun of.

[–] Valmond 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How so, templates make for less code usually? Or like template meta prog?

I'm a C++ dev and I'm lost on this one :-p plz send help

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's because each template specialization works kind of like a new copy of a class.

[–] Valmond 1 points 1 year ago

Still not getting it, I mean you don't even get to see the code? IDK

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

/shrug

That's my best guess, in the sense that that's what the compiler ends up producing, for templated code: the same code copy-pasted for however many different use cases you have.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Unix Shell is spot on.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Rust: Use of moved value. Type Paper does not implement the Copy trait.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

um more like Rust: Sir this is a very good memory-safe Essay you get 100% Grades!!!! 😎😎😎😎😎

[–] akash_rawal 21 points 1 year ago

Go: Why is your every second sentence a caution?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

UNIX Shell should be about quoting issues

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] FauxPseudo 1 points 1 year ago

Just sudo quote them. It's the same thing.

[–] mothringer 1 points 1 year ago

Or heredocs. The worst shellscript clusterfucks I've encountered have usually involved someone inexplicably deciding that using a heredoc was a good idea, and then someone else not understanding how heredocs work.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't get the HTML one. Is it a reference to HTTP 418?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the joke is that HTML isn't a REAL programming language.

"This isn't even a paper... this is a flower pot."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think a better analogy would be making HTML look like one of those template thingies people use for bullet journals

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Language snobs be like

Java is too verbose, Assembly is best 🥴

Ok nobody actually wants to write Assembly, but that's still what they sound like. Optimizing for number of characters you'd have to type if you used a text editor instead of an IDE, and dumb shit like that.

[–] stingpie 4 points 1 year ago

I like to program assembly. It's kinda fun to juggle around registers, and it feels really gratifying to to see it running at the fastest speed possible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Java hate is not about wanting to type fewer characters; it's about FactoryFactory-type boilerplate nonsense adding conceptual bloat that obscures what the unit of code is actually trying to accomplish.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

FactoryFactory classes are not something inherent to java, it's just as likely with any OOP language. I'm assuming you refer to something like AbstractFactory Pattern.

Most boilerplate can be automatically added by IDEs, and doesn't add any more congnative overhead than comments would. It's basically comments that are statically validated by the compiler.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Typst should be next

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

418 Im a teapot

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