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I love Perl[1] and OCaml. I dislike the rest. It depends on the task. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44359539 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44
by johnisgood 1y ago
I love Perl[1] and OCaml. I dislike the rest. It depends on the task.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44359539 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44359539
> As for idup... The first several search results for "dlang idup" are all useful.
Yes, I am sure it was, I am sure an LLM would have helped too, but I think that is besides the point here.
- zdragnar 1y agoIs it beside the point? Looking at that perl example: $string =~ s/\d+/NUM/g; I don't have a clue what is going on. Sure, I see the regex, but what is =~ doing? There's only so far you can stretch most languages before you need to actually put in effort to learn them.
- johnisgood 1y ago"=~" is the operator testing a regular expression match. It should be obvious, because on the right side you see regex, and you ought to know what "=" or "==" does. FWIW, I knew this as a kid, too, despite knowing absolutely nothing about the language at the time. Anyways, you should read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44463391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44463391 if you care about why I dislike the way D does it.