* My Two Languages @ 2011-07-11 21:52 John McCormick 2011-07-12 21:53 ` Anh Vo 2011-09-13 13:53 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) 0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: John McCormick @ 2011-07-11 21:52 UTC (permalink / raw) I thought the readers of this group would would enjoy the short essay by a "stay-at-home father and computer programmer" http://www.jasonfruit.com/page/two_languages ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: My Two Languages 2011-07-11 21:52 My Two Languages John McCormick @ 2011-07-12 21:53 ` Anh Vo 2011-09-13 13:53 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) 1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Anh Vo @ 2011-07-12 21:53 UTC (permalink / raw) On Jul 11, 2:52 pm, John McCormick <mccorm...@cs.uni.edu> wrote: > I thought the readers of this group would would enjoy the short essay by a "stay-at-home father and computer programmer" > > http://www.jasonfruit.com/page/two_languages This is an interesting and cool article. In addition, it is nice to see good comments from an impartial folk. Thanks for the link. Anh Vo ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: My Two Languages 2011-07-11 21:52 My Two Languages John McCormick 2011-07-12 21:53 ` Anh Vo @ 2011-09-13 13:53 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) 2011-09-13 14:02 ` Ludovic Brenta 2011-09-13 14:03 ` Marc C 1 sibling, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) @ 2011-09-13 13:53 UTC (permalink / raw) Le Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:52:17 +0200, John McCormick <mccormick@cs.uni.edu> a écrit: > I thought the readers of this group would would enjoy the short essay by > a "stay-at-home father and computer programmer" > > http://www.jasonfruit.com/page/two_languages The link says “C makes you feel like a 1337 h@xx0r;” What does this sentence means ? -- “Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University] “Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [Idem] Java: Write once, Never revisit ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: My Two Languages 2011-09-13 13:53 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) @ 2011-09-13 14:02 ` Ludovic Brenta 2011-09-13 14:03 ` Marc C 1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Ludovic Brenta @ 2011-09-13 14:02 UTC (permalink / raw) Yannick Duchêne wrote on comp.lang.ada: > John McCormick <mccorm...@cs.uni.edu> a écrit: > >> I thought the readers of this group would would enjoy the short essay by >> a "stay-at-home father and computer programmer" > >> http://www.jasonfruit.com/page/two_languages > > The link says “C makes you feel like a 1337 h@xx0r;” What does this > sentence means ? Glad you don't understand, that confirms you're not a "leet hacker" who revels on obfuscated code. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet -- Ludovic Brenta. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: My Two Languages 2011-09-13 13:53 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) 2011-09-13 14:02 ` Ludovic Brenta @ 2011-09-13 14:03 ` Marc C 1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Marc C @ 2011-09-13 14:03 UTC (permalink / raw) On Sep 13, 8:53 am, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) <yannick_duch...@yahoo.fr> wrote: > The link says “C makes you feel like a 1337 h@xx0r;” What does this > sentence means ? "C makes you feel like an [elite] [hacker]". Utilizing the terse, cryptic programming style that C lends itself to can cause one to assert a claim of being a highly capable programmer. The author's formulation and use of "leetspeak" (https:// secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Leet) in the sentence is intended to be ironic. Marc A. Criley ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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