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I keep wondering what it is that makes C programmers especially antisocial and obnoxious. Is it like in that joke: Father calls his small son to him, pours a s
by aasasd 5y ago
I keep wondering what it is that makes C programmers especially antisocial and obnoxious. Is it like in that joke:
Father calls his small son to him, pours a shot of vodka and tells him to drink it. The son drinks, then makes a face and says in repulse: “Eurgh, it's disgusting!”
The man replies: “Yeah, you probably thought your dad drinks honey, did you?”
- dang-guefever 5y agoIndividuals who prefer legible, honest signalling and understanding to doing double-work for ignorant, ungrateful people. Yeah, it's a mystery. In short: "Programs are meant to be read by humans, and only incidentally for computers to execute."
- aasasd 5y agoAh yes, the famed clarity and readability of C, where people are so entrenched in the belief that the compiler limits identifiers to seven characters or whatever, and in the aversion to typing out a single word in full, that they still build whole new languages with module, function and variable names looking like alphabet vomit. And with ungoogleable (ironically) language names to top it off.
- maydup-nem 5y agoThat quotes simply means that you shouldn't write spaghetti code, and that another _programmer_ should be able to read it. Quite clearly, it doesn't carry a meaning of: "hey, every user now has to become a proficient reader of whatever languages this software is written in."