Perlisisms
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- rezmason - 1572 sekunder sedanThese are fun to say out loud in the voice of the Kai Lentit's Perl programmer
- LelouBil - 6091 sekunder sedan> A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Great definition actually
- chriscbr - 12006 sekunder sedanRandom self plug - I liked a lot of these quotes from Alan Perlis, so around a year ago I bought the domain https://perl.is/ to display them.
- ripe - 1856 sekunder sedan> 102. One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Seems to be a strike against LLM-based programming systems like Claude.
- dtagames - 13256 sekunder sedanAnd in #27 we find the rationale behind all LLM coding agents, "Once you understand how a program works, get someone else to write it for you."
- jancsika - 6645 sekunder sedan> 2. Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
A good way to enforce this is to encrypt the data at the beginning of the process.
Then any function that returns structured data is clearly foolish and can be marked for removal.
- LelouBil - 5941 sekunder sedan> Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Pretty relevant with LLMs and coding agents.
- sriram_malhar - 12164 sekunder sedanThis feels so quaint today. How I'd like to be back in that timeframe.
- DonHopkins - 6658 sekunder sedan>1. One man's constant is another man's variable.
Did you ever have one of those days when variables didn't and constants weren't?
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