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[–] [email protected] 205 points 2 months ago (2 children)

all lines not terminated by a single space are comments

[–] [email protected] 85 points 2 months ago

There's a special place in hell for you

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also each line starts with a semicolon and you have to escape spaces in strings using a double forward slash

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I realized a while ago that there's nothing stopping me from writing rust like this

;println!("This is great")
;println!("I think everyone should write rust like this")
;println!("Probably works in most languages that use semicolons")
;
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also a spicial place in hell for you

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Can we add the comefrom function too?

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 2 months ago (14 children)

It uses XML-like syntax:

<fun>
  <name>sum</name>
  <in>
    <int>foo</int>
    <int>bar=0</int>
  </in>
  <out><int>foo+bar</int></out>
</fun>
[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago

This deserves to be added to the list of human rights violations

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (2 children)
<fun>
  <name>sum</name>
  <in>
    <int>
      <name>foo</name>
    </int>
    <int>
      <name>bar</name>
      <default_value>
        <int>0</int>
      </default_value>
    </int>
  </in>
  <out>
    <int>
      <calculation>
        <numerical_operation>
          <operator_plus>
            <operand>
              <var>foo</var>
            </operand>
            <operand>
              <var>bar</var>
            </operand>
          </operator_plus>
        </numerical_operation>
      </calculation>
    </int>
  </out>
</fun>
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How did you come up with such a ****ingly stupid syntax?!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Welcome to the world of abusing the shit out of Ant. My first full time job was developing Ant in unholy ways. Tens of thousands of lines of Ant at least, doing significant logic. If-then-else, for loops, math, procedures, date-time math. I stuck it out for a year. It was a year too long.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The whitespace is not only required, but it must be tabs and spaces.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Calm down, Satan

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Compiler rolls the dice if your only required indentation is accepted as space or tab. Per line.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

I like it, this is clearly very enterprisey and solution focused, but I would like to suggest a couple of amendments if I may?

  • Namespaces We should make full use of namespaces. Make the structural tags be in a language specific namespace (to be referenced in every function spec, obviously) but change the in an out params to use the parameter name as the tag, namespaced to the function they're for, with a type attribute.

  • In memory message queues Have all function invocations be marshaled as xml documents posted to an in memory message queue. Said documents should use a schema that validates the structure and a function specific schema to validate the types of arguments being passed. Namespace everything.

I reckon we could power a medium sided country if we could generate energy from the programmers despair.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Can you please link to a medium article on how this will help utilize AI blockchain so i can show it to management on Monday?

[–] JackbyDev 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Make sure to make ample use of mixed content elements.

<statement><var>bar</var> = <int>0</int></statement>
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

You monster

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Who hurt you :(

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Oh my, I feel woozy …

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 months ago

...but intended for web, but you can also misuse it for apps and system services

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

...to an intermediate set of instructions for a virtual machine...

...called the brainfuck interpreter

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Brainfuck.NET Interpreter that uses modified Java bytecode instructions.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Yes brainfuck with some Java Bytecode instructions for syscalls.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Confusion like this got me my current job. They were looking for somebody with experience in "Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager", and I look that up and I'm like "Oh, that's SCCM, I do that". Go through the interview process they keep asking me if I know Endpoint Configuration Manager and I'm like "yeah, for sure". I get the job. Day one, the other systems engineer is like "here is the link to our Endpoint Manager Tenant", and I'm like "oh... Shit I have never ever used this"

Well... Ends up Endpoint Configuration Manager and Endpoint Manager are two different things. Fortunately for me they are pretty similar in function and rely on knowledge of Windows and Powershell, which I know.

So my first 2 weeks of work was taking a shitload of courses in Endpoint Manager and watching a lot of videos and learning it inside and out.

2 years later and I'm an Endpoint Manager/Intune pro.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago

90% of IT and software jobs are "I have common sense, know how to look up information, and my boss is intimidated by my work so they don't question it."

[–] mcmodknower 31 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Or make a language named everything so you can say "i program in everything"

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Make it completely untyped. Everything's just a string.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think white space should be used to represent basic functions too. For example 3 spaces can be used to sum two values while 4 spaces can be used to subtract.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

And its syntax is nothing like python haha

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Make it purely functional, lisp based with reversed Polish notation and APL symboles, I dare you mf

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Make it completely ignore indentation

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Make sure it's not whitespace sensitive and requires explicit typing, just to mess with everyone.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Make it so the capitalization affects the scope.

Oh wait.

(Sorry, I recently had to switch to golang for work, and I'm just not used to it yet, and I'm getting annoyed by some of these design decisions)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

There is a Tiger Jyhton version for the web https://www.tigerjython.ch/en

But at least just for educational purposes😅

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Just call it Script.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just today I heard someone whining about how in LinkedIn and other recruitment sites there's like five bazillion profile tag options for RDMBSes and various dialects of SQL... when in actuality the recruiters are probably only concerned if the developer can do a bloody SELECT and stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Screw it. Let's actually make python script an ISA that gets run on physical hardware with no higher level tooling. Then we can have the python virtual environment which runs this for fools who don't have the right hardware. Finally, when people start complaining about naming we make Python Script 2.1, which is a JIT language built on top of IL that looks nothing like either of them but can emulate both python and python script with the performance cost of being a quarter as fast as both.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

PythonSharp Script Java Edition

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And just to top it off, make this pythonscript a dialect of rust

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Make a UX or Project management tool with “Java” in the name so newbie recruiters look for people in the wrong department.

They already do this, but this would make them do it even more.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

So the matlab thing where all lines not terminated by semi colon are printed except use Greek question marks instead of semi colons.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

What if every variable would have to use a pointer that points to a reference of the data in a central array. In normal languages you'd need a variable to store said array, but what if it too has to reference itself in itself, so we get some funky recursion.

[–] bitfucker 5 points 2 months ago

Make CScript, an interpreted, duck-typed language

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

And base the syntax on Typescript

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

this is evil

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