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Attack of the One-Letter Programming Languages
snydeq writes: The programming world is fast proliferating with one-letter programming languages, many of which tackle specific problems in ways worthy of a cult following, writes InfoWorld's Peter Wayner in this somewhat tongue-in-cheek roundup of the more interesting entrants among this trend. "They're all a bit out there, with the possible exception of C. ... Each offers compelling ideas that could do the trick in solving a particular problem you need fixed.'"
I google R stuff all the time and it is a pain in the ass. Google has gotten a lot better recently (or I've been lucky).
Adding "lang" to the end helps. It's a trend for non-single-letter languages (hacklang, golang, etc) but seems to work for R & C too.
It is Winter after all
I guess I could type more for my subject, but when the subject is one-letter languages, get off my case, eh?
If I understood more math, I'd enjoy using J, the "normal keyboard" version of APL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
Mostly random stuff.
"CLANG!"
Appropriate. Sounds like my head hitting the keyboard when I'm working in C.
"JAVASCRIPTLANG" is a more guttural sound. Like I'm vomiting into the wastebasket in my cubicle. Also appropriate.
+1 informative. I'll try that.. Wonder if "c#lang" works better than 'cpound'.
APL was not invented by IBM to be terse. It was invented by Iverson as a notation to describe array operations, and he published a book about it before he went to IBM.
This is just lazy journalism. The guy who wrote it got a stupiod idea, spent insufficient time doing research, wrote something trivial in even less time and screwed up his facts.
He gets an "I" for idiot.
Why is Snark Required?
For any new language, adoption is a problem. Interesting languages like Eiffel, Smalltalk, etc. never really made the big-time and never will.
The reason is simple: Most of today's programmers are not very good at their job. They just do not get what makes these languages impressive and exceptionally effective. As soon as programming is recognized as a very demanding engineering task that actually requires the best and brightest (and that using them pays off handsomely), this will change. Of course, that realization may never materialize.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Hah! Still stcuk using one letter lanaguages, hey?
Personally, I use (unpronounceable squiggly symbol) - the price of programming languages. Pain in the arse to google though.
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D-Flat was named that because C-Sharp was taken. It was published in Dr. Dobbs by Al Stevens.
Of course, the fact that C-Sharp was an existing windowing library didn't bother Microsoft at all, when naming their language.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Google desperately needs a "yes, just like I typed it" button.
Use double quotes around words or phrases you want "as typed."
Who the fuck uses R? Use something else, like python.
pirates.
Star Trek transporters are just 3d printers.