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Re^7: Automatic downvote

by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop)
on Apr 01, 2023 at 22:08 UTC ( [id://11151421]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^6: Automatic downvote
in thread Automatic downvote

Bod, I'll take that as a vote for "Unorthodox".

... or are you suggesting that harangzsolt33's unorthodox Perl coding style is ahead of its time and will become mainstream in the future? :)

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Re^8: Automatic downvote
by LanX (Saint) on Apr 01, 2023 at 22:36 UTC
    I think this coding style was ahead of it's time in the 80s. No joke ;)

    And it's not a bad one, it's just frozen in time and ignoring what happened in the meantime°.

    He's exceptionally good in ignoring ...

    Anyway I'm not downvoting him for his coding style.˛

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the 𐍀𐌴𐍂𐌻 Programming Language :)
    Wikisyntax for the Monastery

    °) for instance, does Tiny-Perl really have no multiline Here-Docs? All these print statements are like staring into the closet of my grandma...

    ˛) which is actually Orthodox in it's antiquity

      it's just frozen in time and ignoring what happened in the meantime

      There may be a reason for this:

      I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

      1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
      2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
      3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

      (Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt)

      Alexander

      --
      Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)

        Ha ha, I like it! Reminded me of when I was writing Organizational Culture (Part VI): Sociology:

        An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning: another instance of the fact that the future lies with the youth.

        -- Planck's Principle

        A person who has not made his great contribution to science before the age of thirty will never do so

        -- Albert Einstein

        DesignerLanguageAge
        John BackusFORTRAN30
        Dennis RitchieC30
        Bjarne StroustrupC++30
        Yukihiro MatsumotoRuby30
        John McCarthyLISP32
        Brendan EichJavascript33
        Larry WallPerl33
        Guido van RossumPython34
        James GoslingJava39
        Anders HejlsbergC#39

        It will be interesting to see if more breakthroughs are made by older folks if life expectancy improves further, especially if it dramatically improves via genetic engineering ... though I won't be around to see it. :)

        Update: As pointed out to me in the Chatterbox, note that many of the ten computer language designers in the table above had already made important contributions in their twenties. Anders Hejlsberg, for example, wrote the core of the Turbo Pascal compiler in his early twenties, while still a student. Dennis Ritchie was a pioneer developer of the Multics and Unix operating systems. Please feel free to point out earlier contributions made by others in the table above.

        > Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

        Feature freeze before end of life cycle ...

        Cheers Rolf
        (addicted to the 𐍀𐌴𐍂𐌻 Programming Language :)
        Wikisyntax for the Monastery

      just frozen in time and ignoring what happened in the meantime°

      I've been guilty of that too LanX, I'm sure others have too...

      However, I think the difference is that I didn't so much ignore by choice but through true ignorance...
      I do try to improve when presented with what seems like a better way. Usually - if it comes from the Monastery, what seems like a better way, is a better way.

      like staring into the closet of my grandma...

      You'll forgive me if I don't dwell on that thought for too long...

Re^8: Automatic downvote
by Bod (Parson) on Apr 01, 2023 at 23:55 UTC
    Bod, I'll take that as a vote for "Unorthodox"

    Good plan :)

    or are you suggesting that harangzsolt33's unorthodox Perl coding style is ahead of its time

    I certainly hope not... ...progress (usually) happens for a reason.

      ...progress (usually) happens for a reason.

      Like, being unable to sit still?

      Cheers, Sören

      Créateur des bugs mobiles - let loose once, run everywhere.
      (hooked on the Perl Programming language)

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