Yes, I know I'm updating a whole lot lately.
Man, programming languages sort of piss me off. I feel intuitively that there's a better way to make programs than creating big linear branching structures.
Back in the day, I wrote a program that was nearly 4,000 lines long in a programming language called Perl. Perl was okay. It was popular with hackers and web gurus. Lots of people criticized it though for it's symbol soup. A perl program has shift characters all over it ($#@%*!). I didn't like that the rules were fucking confusing. Sometimes a command would do one thing in one context, and something slightly different in another context. That shit's retarded.
Then I re-wrote the same sort of program in Ruby and it took just 1,200 lines. The big savings there was that Ruby had better tools for working with lists of data. Basically, it had more circles than straight lines and while it's confusing at first, you start realizing that circles are indeed cooler than lines and much less brittle.
I wish I was smart enough to come up with a programming language that used nothing but circles. It'd be fucking rad.
People would say, "Holy shit, these circles are ground-breaking. Circles are awesome for getting work done. Why did we ever use squares for wheels before?"
Man, programming languages sort of piss me off. I feel intuitively that there's a better way to make programs than creating big linear branching structures.
Back in the day, I wrote a program that was nearly 4,000 lines long in a programming language called Perl. Perl was okay. It was popular with hackers and web gurus. Lots of people criticized it though for it's symbol soup. A perl program has shift characters all over it ($#@%*!). I didn't like that the rules were fucking confusing. Sometimes a command would do one thing in one context, and something slightly different in another context. That shit's retarded.
Then I re-wrote the same sort of program in Ruby and it took just 1,200 lines. The big savings there was that Ruby had better tools for working with lists of data. Basically, it had more circles than straight lines and while it's confusing at first, you start realizing that circles are indeed cooler than lines and much less brittle.
I wish I was smart enough to come up with a programming language that used nothing but circles. It'd be fucking rad.
People would say, "Holy shit, these circles are ground-breaking. Circles are awesome for getting work done. Why did we ever use squares for wheels before?"
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Hey, you know what would be great for your next journal? One that doesn't make me feel like an idiot when I read it. 