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Well, now I can at least understand what it feels like to look at Lisp and hate all the parentheses, so I'm trying to temper my immediate repulsion a little. Bu
by thom 5y ago
Well, now I can at least understand what it feels like to look at Lisp and hate all the parentheses, so I'm trying to temper my immediate repulsion a little. But no, absolutely not. I would code a pre-commit hook to reject these on the first attempt, and send you your P45 on the second, sorry.
- cestith 5y agoI understand your frustration looking at symbols which may not be straightforward without a certain background or a glossary of terms. However, do you realize anyone outside the UK similarly likely would need to look up what a P45 form is? It's like a USian saying "pink slip" rather than any Anglophone just saying "termination papers". We all like our own shorthand symbols and tend toward discomfort when we're the out group.
- thom 5y agoThat comment was obvious hyperbole on an internet message board, not production code, and even then it's a terrible analogy because I actually typed it, I didn't use some inscrutable emoji that you then had to cut and paste. Also the idea that "people in the know" write code like this is absurd - I've worked with mathematicians for more than a decade in languages that support unicode names, and it would never occur to any of them to do idiotic stuff like this. This is terrible practice and always will be.