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In my student days, we had printers with ISO 646-60 character set - that is "ASCII" with the positions available to national letters assigned to ÆØÅæøå. Unicode/UTF-8 was years into the future then - we were still fighting to make Americans understand that there could possibly exist more than 26 alphabetic characters. We were in the transition from Pascal to C as the major programming language, going from "if x > 5 then begin ... end" to (as it came out on the printer) "if (x > 5) æ ... å".
Now, the sound of the 'æ' letter is quite close to "Eeeee?". The sound of 'å' is close to "Oh!". So for a few years, until the printers and software were updated to handle more characters, when verbally referring to source code, we commonly read it out as "if (x > 5), Eeeeh??? ... Ooooh!!", with a very pronounced questioning tone for the 'æ', and the 'å' like an "Aha!" - "Now I get it!" tone. In some situations, the Eeeeh???s and Ooooh!!s fit perfectly in!
Another memory: Algol 68 was considered a crazy language in those days, proving mechanisms next to impossible to implement (but every language offers today...). One thing was that it defined abstract tokens; a compiler writer could (at least in principle) choose to look for an English "if", a Norwegian "hvis" or a German "wenn". And there was in fact a German Algol-68 compiler out there. I saw some source code example, knowing German well enough to easily follow the program flow. (There is even an example of German Algol-68 in Wikipedia!)
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While I appreciate the idea of localized dialects of programming languages, I think we're better off without them. I still remember the pain of 'copying' an Excel spreadsheet to Google docs, resulting in lots of manual work to translate the localized Excel functions like 'WENN' and 'SUMME' into the corresponding english function names...
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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You have inspired me. About twenty years ago I wrote my own language and we just called it "the scripting language." My next one I will call "umlaut." I like it.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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How do I know this beef is good, without samples?
I want beef samples!
But there is no sample link on the page, despite a tantalising screenshot of a game sample in the IDE pic...
Even the source on GIT doesn't have sample...
Although.. the IDE i also build with beef.. mmm...
What I really would like though, is some Dirext X sample.. like the "GameApp" on their page....
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are you sure there's no beef samples?
perhaps "rare" a better choice of adjective?
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I hope another programming language isn't a misteak.
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Come back when you find a BACON programming language!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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Does it come with sauce code?
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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I've spent all day on a particular optimization only to run into wall where i just can't get it to generate the correct code.
It's super frustrating. I hate when some bugs crop up and debugging them is like trying to push an air bubble out of a waterbed. It just doesn't work. You squash it in one place, it comes back somewhere else.
The problem is I really should be converting this to a partial DFA but i haven't figured out how, so I was doing it another way, and turns out it's probably and anti-pattern (not that this is common enough code to be a pattern in the first place)
Real programmers use butterflies
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I raced an Air Force guy for pink slips...
That was a HUGE mistake...
Where the hell am I gonna park my new F16?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Haha, did you race him traffic light to traffic light or something?
Real programmers use butterflies
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Might use it for parts?
Did he have those fuzzy dice on the rear view mirror?
It's been 6 months since I joined the gym and there's been no progress. I'm going there tomorrow in person to find out what's really going on!
JaxCoder.com
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Take a look for them in the turbine's intake. It's the fastest way to get out of your clothes[^].
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I've seen that video before that guy is lucky...very lucky!
It's been 6 months since I joined the gym and there's been no progress. I'm going there tomorrow in person to find out what's really going on!
JaxCoder.com
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Use the engine and wings to convert your Mustang into a real flying car. Junk the rest.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Just bung it on ebay.ru, and it'll be sold within half an hour.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Boo! Hiss! No fair, Steam - "Free for two months".
At least when GoG gives you a free game, you get it for ever...
Where will I find time to play HL and HL2 in just 2 months? One of 'em is even really short!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I think it is free to be installed during those two months, but once installed you don't need to pay later for it when the two months are over
Forget it... I just saw it...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
modified 21-Jan-20 20:16pm.
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If you combine Half-Life and Half-Life 2, do you get a Full Life?
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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No, you get less than 1/4 life left, and that includes sleep time ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Stam said: The Half-Life: Alyx team believes that the best way to enjoy the new game is to play through the old ones ???
So the Alyx team knows that the new game is cr@p, compared to the old ones?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Thanks for the heads-up, Kent, but, these would be redundant, for me, since I am already living a half-life.
may your telomere caps never degrade ... Bill
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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