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    MehdiNaseri
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    Glen Stansberry[^]

    There is nothing more frustrating for a web developer than spending hours at a time fixing a bug that should just work. Often I’ll get stuck in a programming state that feels like I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing, as if the language I’m using (CSS, PHP, whatever), is actually a foreign language.

    What is the most bizarre language you have ever worked with?

    Three sentences for getting success: a) Know more than others. b) Work more than others. c) Expect less than others. "William Shakespeare"

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      Glen Stansberry[^]

      There is nothing more frustrating for a web developer than spending hours at a time fixing a bug that should just work. Often I’ll get stuck in a programming state that feels like I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing, as if the language I’m using (CSS, PHP, whatever), is actually a foreign language.

      What is the most bizarre language you have ever worked with?

      Three sentences for getting success: a) Know more than others. b) Work more than others. c) Expect less than others. "William Shakespeare"

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      Brisingr Aerowing
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      Most modern programming languages do not consider white space characters (spaces, tabs and newlines) syntax, ignoring them, as if they weren’t there. We consider this to be a gross injustice to these perfectly friendly members of the character set. Should they be ignored, just because they are invisible? Whitespace is a language that seeks to redress the balance. Any non whitespace characters are ignored; only spaces, tabs and newlines are considered syntax.

      WHY?!?!?

      Bob Dole

      The internet is a great way to get on the net.

      :doh: 2.0.82.7292 SP6a

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        Most modern programming languages do not consider white space characters (spaces, tabs and newlines) syntax, ignoring them, as if they weren’t there. We consider this to be a gross injustice to these perfectly friendly members of the character set. Should they be ignored, just because they are invisible? Whitespace is a language that seeks to redress the balance. Any non whitespace characters are ignored; only spaces, tabs and newlines are considered syntax.

        WHY?!?!?

        Bob Dole

        The internet is a great way to get on the net.

        :doh: 2.0.82.7292 SP6a

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        Super Lloyd
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        Brilliant!! Here is why: And that's all I have to say! In only 123 spaces!! :laugh:

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          Glen Stansberry[^]

          There is nothing more frustrating for a web developer than spending hours at a time fixing a bug that should just work. Often I’ll get stuck in a programming state that feels like I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing, as if the language I’m using (CSS, PHP, whatever), is actually a foreign language.

          What is the most bizarre language you have ever worked with?

          Three sentences for getting success: a) Know more than others. b) Work more than others. c) Expect less than others. "William Shakespeare"

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          PIEBALDconsult
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          COBOL. Come to think of it, they're all bizarre. What we need is a Plain En&^%$#&^$&*$786478.....

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            Glen Stansberry[^]

            There is nothing more frustrating for a web developer than spending hours at a time fixing a bug that should just work. Often I’ll get stuck in a programming state that feels like I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing, as if the language I’m using (CSS, PHP, whatever), is actually a foreign language.

            What is the most bizarre language you have ever worked with?

            Three sentences for getting success: a) Know more than others. b) Work more than others. c) Expect less than others. "William Shakespeare"

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            Grasshopper iics
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            VB and PHP are top of my list. I have worked in several open source projects including MyBB and Drupal. But could never like PHP. It is just not 'fun'! Same goes for VB. I could never really fall in love with that.

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              Glen Stansberry[^]

              There is nothing more frustrating for a web developer than spending hours at a time fixing a bug that should just work. Often I’ll get stuck in a programming state that feels like I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing, as if the language I’m using (CSS, PHP, whatever), is actually a foreign language.

              What is the most bizarre language you have ever worked with?

              Three sentences for getting success: a) Know more than others. b) Work more than others. c) Expect less than others. "William Shakespeare"

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              John Isaiah Carmona
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              LOLCode :laugh:

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                Glen Stansberry[^]

                There is nothing more frustrating for a web developer than spending hours at a time fixing a bug that should just work. Often I’ll get stuck in a programming state that feels like I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing, as if the language I’m using (CSS, PHP, whatever), is actually a foreign language.

                What is the most bizarre language you have ever worked with?

                Three sentences for getting success: a) Know more than others. b) Work more than others. c) Expect less than others. "William Shakespeare"

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                _beauw_
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                C++

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                  Glen Stansberry[^]

                  There is nothing more frustrating for a web developer than spending hours at a time fixing a bug that should just work. Often I’ll get stuck in a programming state that feels like I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing, as if the language I’m using (CSS, PHP, whatever), is actually a foreign language.

                  What is the most bizarre language you have ever worked with?

                  Three sentences for getting success: a) Know more than others. b) Work more than others. c) Expect less than others. "William Shakespeare"

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                  AspDotNetDev
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                  LISP was pretty weird, though XSLT is the strangest language I've actually used for work. Though, regular expressions might be considered a language in their own right, and they're pretty weird too.

                  Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!

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                    Glen Stansberry[^]

                    There is nothing more frustrating for a web developer than spending hours at a time fixing a bug that should just work. Often I’ll get stuck in a programming state that feels like I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing, as if the language I’m using (CSS, PHP, whatever), is actually a foreign language.

                    What is the most bizarre language you have ever worked with?

                    Three sentences for getting success: a) Know more than others. b) Work more than others. c) Expect less than others. "William Shakespeare"

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                    Matthew Dennis
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                    Missed the Malbolge[^] Language. I first saw this on an episode of Elementary.

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                      Glen Stansberry[^]

                      There is nothing more frustrating for a web developer than spending hours at a time fixing a bug that should just work. Often I’ll get stuck in a programming state that feels like I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing, as if the language I’m using (CSS, PHP, whatever), is actually a foreign language.

                      What is the most bizarre language you have ever worked with?

                      Three sentences for getting success: a) Know more than others. b) Work more than others. c) Expect less than others. "William Shakespeare"

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                      Kent Sharkey
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                      While I don't think anyone really works with it (it's probably just someone's grad thesis gone wild), Brainfsck[^] is the weirdest I've seen. As far as worked with, both RegEx and XSLT are solutions that lead to, "and now you have two problems".

                      -------------- TTFN - Kent

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                        Glen Stansberry[^]

                        There is nothing more frustrating for a web developer than spending hours at a time fixing a bug that should just work. Often I’ll get stuck in a programming state that feels like I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing, as if the language I’m using (CSS, PHP, whatever), is actually a foreign language.

                        What is the most bizarre language you have ever worked with?

                        Three sentences for getting success: a) Know more than others. b) Work more than others. c) Expect less than others. "William Shakespeare"

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                        Matthew Faithfull
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                        The reporting language for a product I used to work on was the wierdest I've ever used although nothing is worse the Malbolge at least not yet. This reporting language didn't even have a name it was just reporting script but it was unlike anything else, 5 sections to Cobols 4 ( I hope I got that right ) and each one had a different syntax from really readable stuff in one section like ORDER BY CUSTOMER to a bunch of /g style switches in another. It did the job however and the job was a scary one, multi-dimensional database analysis at speeds that would make Larry Ellison X| with envy.

                        "The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

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                          LISP was pretty weird, though XSLT is the strangest language I've actually used for work. Though, regular expressions might be considered a language in their own right, and they're pretty weird too.

                          Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!

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                          PIEBALDconsult
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                          I certainly prefer Regular Expressions to XSLT and XPath.

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