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Replace with: (1) I am from $region_X and I went to $region_Y (2) $region_Y'ers do things in a way I find unusual and/or distressing (3) The cause must be a
by f1notformula1 9y ago
Replace with:
(1) I am from $region_X and I went to $region_Y
(2) $region_Y'ers do things in a way I find unusual and/or distressing
(3) The cause must be a character flaw shared by all $region_Y'ers (<insert stereotypes of choice here>).
and your statement is still valid about this formula.
I think we tend to preferentially notice them when we're in one of the two regions involved, but in general the world (and so the internet) is full of this sort of semantically null comparisons about culture and stereotypes. I've started seeing these as idle chatter akin to "Hey, look at that weirdly painted bus". At most I'd respond with "oh heh cool" but I'm not going to spend any more of my energy trying to explain choices of bus colors to anyone.
- lemiffe 9y agoPHP dev? ;)
- hiccuphippo 9y agoAnother stereotype? It could be Perl or Bash.
- tyingq 9y agoOr Ruby, or TCL...
- new_hackers 9y agoor PowerShell
- RbrtM 9y agoI didn't know that there are still people out there that program in Perl or Tcl??
- tyingq 9y agoBooking.com is mostly Perl and doing gangbusters. Tcl is, for example, the lingua franca for F5 load balancers. I have more examples, but both are far from dead.
- Cyph0n 9y agoTcl is a household name in the field of EDA tool scripting. Virtually all software tools designed by Cadence, Synopsys, and Mentor include a Tcl REPL/console. Any task performed in the GUI is actually executed in the REPL, making it easy to replicate a specific flow by just copy/pasting the commands displayed in the REPL into a Tcl script. To load a script, you simply pass it as an argument when running the software.
- lizmat 8y agoThere are. There's even a Perl 6 that is production ready: https://perl6.org https://perl6.org
- osrec 9y agoFirst thing that came to my mind too! But it could also be bash...
- labster 9y agoI thought Perl was the only language that has ' as a valid character in variable names along with the $. Ada allows the quote, too.