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Well, I certainly didn't expect to still be coding for loops by hand in a text editor after 30 years. Guess it could be worse, at least I (mostly) don't have t
by rmah 5y ago
Well, I certainly didn't expect to still be coding for loops by hand in a text editor after 30 years. Guess it could be worse, at least I (mostly) don't have to worry about memory leaks anymore. So that's something I guess.
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- jvanderbot 5y agodata.for_each( |x| : x-> map ( blah blah blah )))))))
- DougWebb 5y agomy @result = map { blah blah blah with $_ } @data; I became a Perl developer at the tail end of the 90's. I learned a lot of functional development and Lisp before I had any idea what they were.
- 0xbadcafebee 5y agoAnd who'da thunk that all modern language ecosystems would completely ignore the few good parts of CPAN?
- rmah 5y agoNo offense kiddo, but that's just sugar. I was passing function pointers and arrays 30 years ago. <old man grumbling ensues>
- quickthrower2 5y agoHaskell, Lisp and APL have been avoiding for loops for decades.
- cblconfederate 5y agotbf computer science has not changed. Despite all the tech, we humans still use language to express our ideas so i don't think the coding of thoughts into serial text will go away