Re: Over exaggerated negative post on reddit programming
- Posted by Shian_Lee May 08, 2015
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Attack the article, not the person.
Perhaps most importantly, an E programmer should remember to initialize their variables to starting values. Failure to do so means that a variable is unset. Attempt to use a variable that is unset is an error. E shall not provide a None, null, nil, or other constant to test if a variable is unset.
Jesse, sincerely, after few years of programming in Microsoft's Basic dialects, and having to add Option Explicit statement on top of each module, together with defint a-z... I need a physiotherapist to cure my both hands.
Initializing variables -
- Creates a readable, mature, and clear code.
- Allows a straightforward way to warn that 129 variables are not used anymore.
- Enforcing a logical way of thinking.
- Eliminates cases of forgetting to assign the correct value to variable.
- Allows a quick observation of resources usage.
- Eliminates all kinds of errors.
And by the way,
E will require declaration of variables before being able to use them. Additionally, the language will require that all variables have a type. Out of the box, the following types will be supported:
integer : A 31-bit integer. But there are plans to make it a full 32 bits in the future. E does not understand 64-bits though. atom : A C double. sequence : An array. object : Any one of the above three.
- Integer is known to be the most efficient data type - that's why.
- Double is not a C invention - it's a well known hardware capacity.
- Sequence does not stands for "Array" - it's an unlimited dynamic structure, unbelievably easy-to-use, and more powerful then any other concept I know.
- Actually Object, together with the three above, allows you to use very advanced patterns that cannot be achieved easily, or not at all, in other languages.
- Beside Integer, Double, (32 or 64 bits), Euphoria-Sequence, and Euphoria-Object: does the PC hardware offers many more exciting data types?
That's the power of Euphoria: Simplicity.
Strings will be represented by a sequence wherein each element has a very low integer value. This will make it so a programmer cannot tell the difference between an array and a string. In fact, internally, the interpreter will also have no idea. To further complicate matters, the type system will only check the top level of a type.
When you don't know what you're doing, what you're writing - and what for: only then it's hard to tell the difference between "" and {}.
That's another way to get rid of untalented and useless programmers from the business. Look at it as a modest contribution of the Euphoria programming language to the world's global harmony.
I could go on with this, but almost any part of your post is shallow and immature, and I don't want to upset the readers of this forum.
I don't say that you are a bad programmer, I say that your attitude and perspective is very very narrow minded, and with this attitude your contribution to the world of programming is by overloading the already overloaded programming world - with another programming language.
Edit: and by the way, Euphoria users don't need and don't want to care about low level headache such as signed/unsigned registers, 31-bits or 63-bits, or other CPU flags. C does the job very well, at the cost of huge complexity.
