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This. What I find really annoying is how many people confuse this property ("accessible to those not trained in it") with readability.
by yiyus 5y ago
This.
What I find really annoying is how many people confuse this property ("accessible to those not trained in it") with readability.
- bombcar 5y agoIt's a shame, too, as the most "dense" recent language we had was perl and that got universally made fun of as "line noise" - which I feel influences people more than they think.
- b2gills 5y agoI also wonder how many people understand that linenoise meant noise on a data cable of some description. i.e. the difference between `d` and `$` is a single bit. If your cable happened to glitch during that first `1` bit, you would get a `$` instead of the `d` you should have. The thing is that doesn't happen anymore. Or at least when it does happen it gets caught and retransmitted. --- Which means that some of the first people to say it might not have been making a value judgement, but a statement of fact. (I doubt there was very many in that camp.) Note that I say that as a person who's second favorite language is Perl. (First favorite is Raku, formally known as Perl6.) It is too bad that most of coolest features have come to Perl after I switched to Raku.