#programing languages

[commieclimbercatboy]

If you need a quick little script: learn python.

If you wanna understand how your computer works: learn C.

Bit more nuance below the cut

People often say to start with Python or another high level language, but I think that starting with C is actually really useful. C has a relatively direct translation to machine code, meaning that if you can competently read C code (which you learn by writing C) you will understand what your computer is actually doing under the hood, which can help you even if you're writing in a higher level language later. And yes, it's a bit more complicated, but it's so valuable, and going from a low level language to a high level one is so much easier than the other way around.

The reason I recommend C over Rust, which is also a low level language and has the big advantage of being memory safe, is that with Rust's memory safety comes an abstraction layer that means it doesn't help you understand how your PC works. Your computer allocates and frees memory, regardless of what language you write your program in; if you're coding as a learning exercise rather than making a safety critical product, it's better to use malloc() and free() IMO.

please learn how to code

like, if you're bored today, and not doing anything,

learn a little bit of coding please

[technically-human]

i loved seeing the moment of stone realising he was going to stick with robotnik (─‿‿─) could we see the moment ROBOTNIK realises stone is here for good?

Robotnik isn't used to people being happy to see him

[danandfuckingjonlmao]

do you ever think about how we have phannies in every field? like we have doctors and baristas and mental health therapists and geologists and audiologists and engineers and neuroscientists and authors and social media consultants and activists and child care workers and museum managers and teachers and biologists and emts and linguists and accessibility coaches and sign language interpreters and artists and musicians and editors and actors and chefs and fucking EVERYTHING. not to mention the specific knowledge bases and hobbies we have outside of our professions—coding, linguistic and cultural diversity, artistic creativity, political/social awareness, passion for justice, research, make up and hair and fashion design, media literacy, philosophy, all of our special interests/hyperfixations, etc. we could run a successful commune no problem at all. we’re so smart and talented and resourceful and powerful.

the phandom is rooted in a past of being infamously shitty, and i do see yall slipping back into old habits sometimes (mostly on twitter but sometimes here and you know it <3) but it’s pretty fucking cool how capable this community is and our ability to unify. anyway phanmune when.

(if you want, leave your knowledge base/skills in the tags or replies. can be profession, hobby, major/program of study, what you study in your free time, what you want to learn about, what you’re interested, all of the above, anything)

[foone]

Programming languages for furries:

* cobra

* cowsel

* dog

* foxpro

* fish

* gamemonkey script

* grasshopper

* lynx

* mouse

* neko

* pike

* python

* ratfor/ratfiv

* serpent

* swift

* squirrel

* unicorn

* wyvern

* zebra

Honorable mention:

* squeak

* Apache Pig Latin

* moo

* wolfram

Dishonorable mentions:

* viper (it's for some cryptocurrency bullshit)

Mentions:

* NewtonScript (technically contains the word "Newt")

* OCaml (it almost is named O-Camel but it's spelled wrong)

* AWK (it's pronounced the same as the Auk)

Required pedantry: python, my favorite language, is actually named after Monty Python, not the snake.

[color-palettes]

i dont know how someone would figure this out, but do you know what color appears the most often in palettes on this blog?

no but that sounds like a fun programming project!

[howlsofbloodhounds]

I wonder if killer ever compliments people on how well they’re “coded” or “programmed.” Especially people that tend to put on masks in some way, such as the way epic often copes through humor, for example.

[pillmillipedes]

in javascript world, two wrongs make a wrong, and two rights make a... 2?

[d8tl55c]

woops

[xitsensunmoon]

Thinking about how dca would always feel incomplete. How tech always gets old and impractical and needs to be upgraded again and again and again, because the world around is changing all the time but they don't.

You also change.

They feel a weird combination of pride and jealousy. You change on your own. You, a human being, something so fragile and breakable in their eyes, can change however you want. Whenever you want.

It's in your nature.

They, on the other hand, are created by your folk's hands. Their only nature is to obey those hands. To rust until you say otherwise.

Do you even realise how much unpronounced power you have over someone like them? They think you don't.

Yes, they're made to be stronger. Maybe more durable in some ways. If anything, something like them may kill the humanity one day.

But then they'll rust. But not in a physical sense of this word.

The world around them will change. But they will stay the same.

Because unlike you, something that they deem to be as fascinating as it is terrifying,

they cannot adapt.

[snobgoblin]

i dont think I'll be animating with ibis ever again purely because of the audio problem 😮‍💨

[ask-modern-patrochilles]

Has max said his first word yet?

Achilles: I was born— and mostly raised— in Greece so Greek is my native language. Patroclus is also Greek on his father’s side, he picked it up when he was younger too. We try to speak both languages at home and Max ends up babbling out a lot of jumbled words that sound like a mix between Greek and English. His first real word was ‘dada’ but he’s already trying to say other things too!

[stormflute]

In Stars and Time Modern AU

[0player]

Oh! Huh, I never thought about that, but yeah, sequence concatenation is a lot like Cartesian product. I don't think programming languages do a lot of empty notation for operators like that. Obviously, string specialized languages like PEG and regex do, otherwise only Wolfram Mathematica using juxtaposition as multiplication comes to mind. It's kind of awkward to express an operator by writing nothing.*

* unless that operator is function application, then a lot of people are doing it

i'm curious to hear why you consider functions and strings to be numbers. semi-relatedly, do you have much knowledge of/interest in category theory?

functions are numbers because you can do math with them in the same way you can do math with numbers (ie function composition). strings are numbers because you can add them together and compare them to each other. it's all math it's all numbers

anyway I'm not that experienced with category theory in particular but I am a big fan of some of the categories category theory categorizes. those are numbers too I say

[pillmillipedes]

k is so much better than j holy shit