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Is there a language that can’t be contorted in surprising ways that I’m unaware of?
by rco8786 1y ago
Is there a language that can’t be contorted in surprising ways that I’m unaware of?
- IshKebab 1y agoProbably not, but there are definitely languages that don't do automatic type coercion - so at least one fewer contortion available.
- bobbylarrybobby 1y agoLISP — the contortions are expected, not surprises
- kazinator 1y agoNon-Lisp: gratuitous contortions are expected.
- dominicrose 1y agoA language where there's only one way to do things, maybe a very early version of CSS. The things is all languages end up bloated with new features.
- dymk 1y agoI think that depends on the person, the language, and how familiar they are with the language. Someone's "what the fuck" is another's "obviously it can do that".
- cluckindan 1y agoReminder that Perl exists: https://metacpan.org/dist/perlsecret/view/lib/perlsecret.pod#SYNOPSIS https://metacpan.org/dist/perlsecret/view/lib/perlsecret.pod...
- refulgentis 1y agoSwift, IMHO. Grew up on ObjC and the absolutely crazy things you could pull off dynamically at runtime. You can definitely feel they did not want that in Swift. There's operator overriding but idk if I'd count that as contorting in surprising ways shrugs