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This is at a company where they listed 11 (!!) fantasy languages in the job description. They want candidates to be the type of people who do projects in novel
by blasdel 18y ago
This is at a company where they listed 11 (!!) fantasy languages in the job description. They want candidates to be the type of people who do projects in novel languages just because, that can reason about programming language design issues, that have well-founded reasons for not liking things.
Yes, it would bait idiots who "don't like C because you can only define variables at the top of a function", or "don't like Java because you have to put classes in different files" -- but that's intentional.
- sharkbrainguy 18y ago"11 fantasy languages" As in 11 not-real languages. Languages that don't exist? I'm not sure I follow.
- blasdel 18y agoAs in 11 academic languages that you would get paid to use in your fantasies (the company advertising the job doesn't use most of them, they just want coworkers that like them too).
- michaelneale 18y agooh no, all this time I have been putting many classes in one file. I guess I should have compiled more often.