When I first saw this comic I was a relatively new COBOL programmer. It felt accurate.
I am now my employer's senior COBOL dev. It still feels accurate.
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The LISP parentheses are not equally balanced. There are more ( than ).
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Python:
from horses import Horse
my_horse = Horse(color="brown")
There. Done.
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The assembly one isn't fair.
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But notice that lisp was the only one where you actually built a horse.
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The Fixed Point Expression / Y Combinator expressed in horses:
Y = (λ f. (λ x. f(xx))(λ x. f(xx)))
;; so then, give Y a horse argument with apple parameters:
Y🐎️ = (λ f. (λ 🍎. f(🍎🍎)) (λ 🍎. f(🍎🍎))) 🐎️ ;; [1]
= (λ 🍎. 🐎️(🍎🍎)) (λ 🍎. 🐎️(🍎🍎)) ;; [2]
= 🐎️( (λ 🍎. 🐎️(🍎🍎)) (λ 🍎. 🐎️(🍎🍎)) ) ;; [3]
= 🐎️(Y🐎️) ;; [4]
Explanation
- 1: x is 🍎, but could be anything. It's just a function parameter nested within another.
- 2:
λfgets executed and vanishes from the left, substitutingfinternally with🐎️. This is now a new function, with left group as the function body, and right group as the function argument, despite being identical. - 3:
λ🍎gets executed and vanishes from the left, substituting🍎with(λ 🍎. 🐎️(🍎🍎)) - 4: Everything within the main brackets at [3] has been seen before at [1], but with f being 🐎. Thus we have bred a new horse. We can breed infinite horses this way
As a non-programmer, TIL Java and JavaScript are two different languages.
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This is no time for joking around......I just wanna know if I can turn my webserver back on yet?! Hello?!? Anyone?!
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Rust builds a unicorn
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Ctrl-F "rust" - > 0 matches
I sense a pertubance in the force
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C: You build a horse. Well, it's not really a horse, but it can do almost all the essential horse-things. It's incredibly fast and compact. Your horse is named "Blue\0\0\0\0\0T~31wsXEi]DiMGW8mh^3". Oh, and now someone else owns it.
you could say that it aged well
That's because it's already so old, it can't get older.
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That's a little reductive but but... sure.
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In Horse64:
import horses from horses.horse64.org
func main {
var my_horse = horses.Horse(color="brown")
}
And in Horse64 Root:
import horses from horses.horse64.org
func main -> bool {
var my_horse <- horses.Horse
my_horse.init("brown")
if failed(my_horse.init) {
return no
}
defer my_horse.destroy()
my_horse.run()
if failed(my_horse.run) {
my_horse.stop()
return no
}
my_horse.stop()
if failed(my_horse.stop) {
return no
}
my_horse.eat("hay")
if failed(my_horse.eat) {
return no
}
return yes
}
ruby: you built a horse that builds a horse to build your horse. your barn is too small. it crashes. everyone is dead.
Is it a dig against C# only being good when using it from F#, i.e. OCaml for .Net or am I overthinking this?
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And here I am glad that I try to avoid phpMyAdmin too, whenever possible.
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