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This is such a bummer of a file that incorrectly assumes that the only valid goal of a new language is to achieve widespread adoption. I know its en vogue to t
by jmduke 13y ago
This is such a bummer of a file that incorrectly assumes that the only valid goal of a new language is to achieve widespread adoption.
I know its en vogue to turn up our noses at "X at Y lines of Javascript", but programming is actually a pretty fun and neat thing to do, and its okay to create something even if its not particularly groundbreaking or commercially viable.
This is a bad language, and you should feel bad for inventing it.
I can't help but imagine the person who penned this sentence also routinely tells children that their macaroni artwork could use more symmetry.
- edvinbesic 13y agoI cannot agree more, especially reading the history of T by P. Graham, a language I have never heard of before or written a line in, but whose history I find extremely interesting from a developers perspective. The whole "X at Y lines" argument is the same as saying "I created an OS in language X in two lines of code" by writing: Import OS.*; OS.Run();
- Aldo_MX 13y agoCheckmate, one line. Import OS.*; OS.Run();
- klibertp 13y agoPaul Graham is not the author of the piece you mention, it's Olin Shivers. I was mistaken at first but then I read a fragment which said "and then I went to write scsh" which made it obvious who was the author. I wonder how people can still be mistaken after seeing this (do they assume PG wrote scsh?).
- resu_nimda 13y agoI think you're taking it too seriously..."X is bad and you should feel bad" is a popular meme that originated in Futurama: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/your-musics-bad-and-you-should-feel-bad http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/your-musics-bad-and-you-should...
- jmduke 13y agoI'm aware that it's a meme, but that doesn't change the connotation of the phrase.
- resu_nimda 13y agoIt's like you willingly got trolled...the post is a joke, and you knew it, but you still got bummed and made ominous assumptions about the person who penned a silly meme regurgitation. I don't understand.
- rmrfrmrf 13y agoc'est l'Internet.
- anon4 13y agoI don't understand. I think I finally do. For a long time I would see posts like GP's on 4chan and wonder if someone is really making them with a straight face unironically, or if it's part of some master troll orchestrated by a grand ruseman. For a while the grand ruseman theory seemed more believable, but seeing a normal person make such a comment on HN makes me think that perhaps most such posts are really made by normal people which, perhaps paradoxically, actually restores a bit of my faith in humanity. I mean, compared to the idea of people with nothing better to do than orchestrate stupid posts on 4chan of all places.
- sanderjd 13y agoSure it does. It suggests the person who penned it had a sense of humor rather than suggesting they are as much of a macaroni art critic as you imagine.
- icambron 13y agoI think you might be missing the tone here. The checklist is intentionally overcritical and self-contradictory. The idea here--in my reading at least--is to poke fun at people who bash new programming languages by reducing their criticisms to a thoughtless checklist.