Programming's Foul Language
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What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code
Todd Smith
COBOL!
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DBNull.Value
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Right?! I'm sick and tired of that silly thing, why by the most nebulous star shine weren't they able to make it equal to DBNull or just plain null?!
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Oh right... Good point. Let's steal that for C# too.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in? Developer, Author (Guardians of Xen)
Next you'll be wanting to drop the semicolon and case sensitivity.
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Actually, I'd rather like the
withstatement as well."WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
No! The only time I've wanted something like that was when trying to copy values from one instance(?) to another
A.X = B.Xandwithonly saves typing one of the names, I'd want to save bothwith ( A , B ) X = X(or something) -
What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code
Todd Smith
APL. RPG. Java.
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Next you'll be wanting to drop the semicolon and case sensitivity.
Drop the semi-colon? And be forced _ to resort to VB's _ horrible style of _ line continuations!?!? No thanks. Though the case sensitivity... I wouldn't have to deal with code where people name the private variables the same as the exposed properties, with just case differences... Or better yet, gems like:
int num = Num + NUM;
Thankfully, I've never actually seen a line that bad, but imagine a program written like that... There's something you can't do in VB.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in? Developer, Author (Guardians of Xen)
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"Brain F$%k" is pretty foul [^]
BF doesn't hold a candle to Malbolge[^] for horror. "Malbolge was so difficult to understand when it arrived that it took two years for the first Malbolge program to appear. The program was not even written by a human being: it was generated by a beam search algorithm designed by Andrew Cooke and implemented in Lisp." "it took many years before the first non-terminating one was introduced. A correct 99 Bottles of Beer program, which deals with non-trivial loops and conditions, was not announced for eight years; the first correct one was by Hisashi Iizawa in 2007." (this isn't talking about adding a language feature; this is just figuring out how to do it in the existing malbolge language.)
The European Way of War: Blow your own continent up. The American Way of War: Go over and help them.
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What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code
Todd Smith
Extension Method.
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No! The only time I've wanted something like that was when trying to copy values from one instance(?) to another
A.X = B.Xandwithonly saves typing one of the names, I'd want to save bothwith ( A , B ) X = X(or something)There are times that I'd like
with (MyClass myClass = new myClass())
{
.Value = 10;
.ComputeValues(22);
with (.Nodes)
{
.InsertItem(10, 20);
}
}"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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There are times that I'd like
with (MyClass myClass = new myClass())
{
.Value = 10;
.ComputeValues(22);
with (.Nodes)
{
.InsertItem(10, 20);
}
}"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
You can do it with object initializers can't you?
Giorgi Dalakishvili #region signature My Articles Asynchronous Registry Notification Using Strongly-typed WMI Classes in .NET [^] My blog #endregion
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What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code
Todd Smith
COM
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BF doesn't hold a candle to Malbolge[^] for horror. "Malbolge was so difficult to understand when it arrived that it took two years for the first Malbolge program to appear. The program was not even written by a human being: it was generated by a beam search algorithm designed by Andrew Cooke and implemented in Lisp." "it took many years before the first non-terminating one was introduced. A correct 99 Bottles of Beer program, which deals with non-trivial loops and conditions, was not announced for eight years; the first correct one was by Hisashi Iizawa in 2007." (this isn't talking about adding a language feature; this is just figuring out how to do it in the existing malbolge language.)
The European Way of War: Blow your own continent up. The American Way of War: Go over and help them.
:omg: Thanks for the info. I rather be flippin burgers at Macdonald than code in that abomination. Thank god for C# :-D
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What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code
Todd Smith
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What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code
Todd Smith
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You can do it with object initializers can't you?
Giorgi Dalakishvili #region signature My Articles Asynchronous Registry Notification Using Strongly-typed WMI Classes in .NET [^] My blog #endregion
Parts of it - you can't do method invocation with it.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code
Todd Smith
something something {
more of that something
}
I know some like this kind of brace style but personally I can't stand it at all. It goes so far that I tend to reformat a piece of code with this brace style before reading it :-D.
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What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code
Todd Smith
I mean - it's a pretty awful thing to wish upon a developer...
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code
Todd Smith
SIGSEGV -
I mean - it's a pretty awful thing to wish upon a developer...
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
So I guess at CP does not ask programmers to write documents. Are you hiring? :)
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What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code
Todd Smith
Judging by CP Posts: I will say is W*F where * = P, C, W