November 2024
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equestriaverse <project9701@gmail.com> on 2019-10-05 10:18:28 wrote:
So, what would an Eldrae programmer think of the usual language tools that Earth humans use-especially C+ and COBOL?
Alistair Young <us@arkane-systems.net> on 2019-10-16 14:07:53 wrote:
C++?
A gruesome hash. It lacks the austerity and purity of a good low-level language, and the expressiveness, coherence, and elegance of a good high-level language. It’s bloated, obfuscated, incoherent, brittle, ugly, and contagious - in the sense that any code written it takes on these qualities. C++ Considered Harmful.
By comparison… well, COBOL may be weak, verbose, and unnecessarily mickey-mouse, but at least it appears to have some design to it.
November 2024
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128-bit words (banquyts)
Those people with buttsticks about “byte” and “nybble” being too silly are going to have to continue to suffer post-contact through “playte”, “dynner”, “feyst”, and “banquyt”.