Does that mean you read comments in source like
free verse? Certainly, effortlessly reading text
with hard line breaks is a skill a hacker should
have or develop.
Why is it a net loss? I agree that a lot of programs on prime time are trashy and sensationalistic, but there are a lot of great programs on television as well.
Not necessarily, just because we have access to better tools in the west doesn't mean that television can't be a benefit to those that have previously had access to none.
I believe that, if choosen wisely, television can improve your knowledge of the world, give you new ideas and stimulate creativity.
I wonder what a language with a three character Fibonacci sequence would be like. You'd probably need Unicode, if the language wasn't specifically designed for the Fibonacci sequence.
A "language" that has fibonacci builtin can do it 2 characters. fx. where f is the name of the fibonacci function and x is a single digit number.
A fibonacci DSL could do it in 1; if all input is expected to be an integral value and the machine only computes fibonacci values, then typing a single digit number would have the intended consequence:
Are we seriously going to have this argument? This is Hacker News, where most of us don't play the Ford/Chevy game with programming languages. Most of us have used multiple languages and know exactly when to employ the right tool for the job.
Perhaps we should have a new rule: if you haven't built a full-scale web app in a specific language, we'd prefer you not comment on it.
(Every week I hear about some new asynchronous web server written in Python. Do people really want to spend time working on their own problems, or do they just want to type as much code into the computer as possible?)
All I'm saying that evaluating every research language out there and seeing how well it suits your problem would just take too much time. Getting acquainted with a few well-known languages and a few DSLs or cult-followed languages should be sufficient.
