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The difference between "#define Z static" and Japanese is that Japanese is an effective method of communicating between 125 million people.
by marshray 9y ago
The difference between "#define Z static" and Japanese is that Japanese is an effective method of communicating between 125 million people.
- shitgoose 9y agok/q is an effective method of writing useful code. if you are not used to it and can't appreciate it, doesn't mean that nobody can.
- PaulRobinson 9y agoAnd k/q is an effective method of writing very fast software for domains such as finance understood by thousands of people. Just because you find it strange, it does not mean it's strange. I'm sure you'd find languages in Papua New Guinea difficult at times, and you'd argue English is "better" because more people speak it, and there is a richer literature in it, but the ideas expressed in those languages - and how they are expressed uniquely in those languages - are valuable to the people who speak them.
- marshray 9y agoNo one here said it was strange. The original word was 'unhealthy'. I'd be very interested to learn more about which semantics of APL-derivatives correspond to which of the 4 or 5 distinct meanings of the keyword 'static' in C.