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[–] [email protected] 160 points 1 week ago (27 children)

I think this thread is meant to flatter programmers and make linguists and sociologists extremely angry.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As someone with a background in linguistics, my jimmies are indeed rustled.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Does Russian have stricter grammar syntax than German? I was a bit puzzled by the comparison made above

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I suspect there’s more people who speak Python fluently than Esperanto. So that comparison sits very wrong with me. The rest was funny :)

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Esperanto always struck me as more perl-like with each part of speech having its own suffix like perl has $ for scalars, @ for arrays, and % for hashes. Though perl is probably more like a bunch of pidgins...

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (19 children)

Is this post sane-washing Russia? What’s left about Russia under Putin? Overall funny, though

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

the root of all modern languages

the whole universe used to speak it

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

P.S: the closest thing to that is Egyptian, but not the language, the Alphabet (the Symbols, not a literal alphabet). Tons of alphabets are descended from Egyptian, including, but not limited to: Greek (and by Proxy Latin, Cyrillic, Georgian, Armenian, Armenian and Armenian (I just noticed this, I'm leaving it in because it's funny)), Arabic (and by proxy- I won't list all that), Hebrew, and Aramaic (and by proxy all Indian languages but one, as well as Tibetan, Phags-pa mongol (and by proxy exactly 5 letters of Hangul), Thai, Lao, Sundanese, and Javanese). There's a lot of dead languages that used scripts derived from Egyptian too but I didn't mention them because I'd be here all day listing stuff like Sogdian or Norse Runes.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

BASIC: Am I a joke to you?

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (27 children)

Why is everyone down on Rust? Seriously. I don't know it but I've considered learning it and it appeals to me and people literally scoff when I mention it. Saw it referred to as a meme language on Lemmy, which is built in Rust. What am I missing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's like a good C++ that is actually able to replace it. There are lots of places where a good C++ is useful. Like everything that needs low latency and low resource usage.

But it's not an easy language, so (I'm guessing) people who see everyone loving it but are unable to learn it start to suffer some sort of cognitive dissonance. If it's too difficult for me to learn, that must be its fault, not mine.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Butthurt C devs don't want it replacing their language.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think rust has good ideas and may even become the default systems language in the mid-term. I find it irritating that there is a very vocal subset of rust proponents that tend to insist that every project in every language needs to be rewritten in rust immediately. I suspect that is also why other people are down on rust.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

I think ppl just got pissed with the fanboys unironically asking to RIIR everything. The language itself is comfy AF, tho

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (13 children)

I finally found the real reason why I like java: I‘m german

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

PHP is Russian. Used to be huge, caused lots of problems, now slowly dwindling away. Its supporters keep saying how it's still better than the competition.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago

In Soviet Russia memory manages you!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I can confidently tell you that no one who actually knows Latin would ever say French is "Latin with fancy rules."

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

..which ironically makes for a perfect parallel with "C/C++"

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

It's a cool meme but I have many many disagreements.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

It fits, English and JavaScript are both three languages in a trench coat.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As a python developer, I'll accept the shower joke in stride. But who are these Esperanto speakers you're shitting on?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Well latin isn't the root of all modern languages

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I guess assembler is sumerien then, only still written and understood? And cobol or fortran? Linear a and b?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But people like and appreciate German.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Perl is... forgotten entirely, despite its efforts in getting us from there to here.

Yup, checks out.

PHP also, but good riddance:-D.

Shell scripting is the ink that makes up these words - without them, you would never have seen this image.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

Java, verbose? laughs in Pascal

Python being Esperanto? Yeah, no, because Python is actually being used

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