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wtd
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 Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 12:00 am Post subject: What's the most shocking thing about language X? |
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| So, when you learned a new programming language, what were the things that most shocked you about it? |
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Tony
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| Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 12:21 am Post subject: (No subject) |
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One of the things that has shocked me about Turing is that it is interpreted and then compiled as C++.
Seeing plaintext comments about Visual Studio inside the Turing IDE file is just hilarious  |
Tony's programming blog. DWITE - a programming contest. |
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Martin
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| Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 12:29 am Post subject: (No subject) |
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Scheme. The functional syntax.
Perl. Perl. |
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rizzix
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| Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 1:15 am Post subject: (No subject) |
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| J. The gibberish. (i gave up learning it) |
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Martin
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| Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 2:23 am Post subject: (No subject) |
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| I sat down and spent a good 8 hours one day trying to learn Brainfuck. It's well named, to say the least. |
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Cervantes
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| Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 9:06 am Post subject: (No subject) |
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Ruby. Chunky bacon.  |
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MysticVegeta
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| Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 11:21 am Post subject: (No subject) |
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The complicated IO and output commands of Java compared to Turing and C++
Edit: woot!! Edit button atlast. By the ways, wtd you didnt say anything.. :S |
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md
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| Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 11:49 am Post subject: (No subject) |
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Basic: There are actually pointers if you dig deep enough  |
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[Gandalf]
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| Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 4:06 pm Post subject: (No subject) |
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MysticVegeta: The edit button has always been there in the general programming section, just not in any 'help' section.
Cornflake: Really?
Surprising... Hmm... Let's start off simple.
JavaScript - OOP! |
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wtd
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| Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 4:49 pm Post subject: (No subject) |
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There's not a whole lot that still surprises me. 
That Micrsoft is planning to incorporate anonymous functions, comprehensions and type inferencing in C# 3.0 is a bit of a surprise, though. |
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Martin
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| Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 6:32 pm Post subject: (No subject) |
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You want suprising? Write a 4DL program that actually compiles:
http://www.cliff.biffle.org/esoterica/4dl.html
4DL turns programming into not only a visual task, but an exercise in visualizing higher-order dimensional spaces--which everyone does in their free time, right? |
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wtd
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| Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 6:40 pm Post subject: (No subject) |
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| Sounds a bit like a four dimensional 'Funge. |
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rizzix
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| Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 2:25 pm Post subject: (No subject) |
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| "Instant job security" -- watch out for those theoretical physicists.. |
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bugzpodder
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| Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 7:05 pm Post subject: (No subject) |
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wtd wrote: There's not a whole lot that still surprises me.
That Micrsoft is planning to incorporate anonymous functions, comprehensions and type inferencing in C# 3.0 is a bit of a surprise, though.
I've being reading up on some .net stuff (JIT, IL, CLR), and the architecture is in itself quiet impressive to me. More impressive than, say Java, IMHO. |
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wtd
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| Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 7:18 pm Post subject: (No subject) |
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It's not too horrendous. Keep in mind, though, that with mainstream languages you're generally seeing something about 20 years behind the mainstream.
Talk to old Lisp or Smalltalk programmers and they will not seem nearly so impressed. |
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