• Rose@slrpnk.net
    7·
    2 hours ago

    Long ago in the Windows 9x era there was also “Is this a Windows DLL file, or a transcript of a digestion noise” and the stuff was like “MSGRBL32.DLL”

  • 🇨🇦 tunetardis@piefed.caEnglish
    3·
    2 hours ago

    I guess strxfrm and the like date back to a period in the 80s when symbol names had to be kept short for the compiler/interpreter’s sake. Like while BASIC back in those days technically allowed > 8 chr names, the interpreter only stored the first 8. In other words, the first 8 needed to be unique. As such, people tended to stick with <= 8 chr symbols to avoid interpreter issues. I think C allowed up to 31? But the culture of <= 8 prevailed nevertheless.

    Then in the 90s, such restrictions were largely dropped in most languages, and symbol names ballooned in size to take advantage of this new freedom. In C++, you even had reserved words growing to the likes of reinterpret_cast around that time, but APIs just got ridiculous along the lines lengthy_class_name_followed_by_fully_spelled_out_method.

    Today, people seem to have come to their senses and settled on more reasonable lengths, though not to 80s extremes. Like going back to C++, we have new reserved words like decltype and constexpr. In the 90s, these would likely have been spelled out in full like constant_expression?

    • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      50 minutes ago

      Then in the 90s, such restrictions were largely dropped in most languages, and symbol names ballooned in size to take advantage of this new freedom.

      But with great freedom comes great responsibility. I think Microsoft went from digestion noices to indirectly advertising their stake in arthritis medicine. I mean my fingers ache just looking at C# or PowerShell.

      What was so wrong about puts or cout? I know it’s not the most intricate functions, but going from a 4chr function to “Console.WriteLine()” is a symbol.

      And as long as I’m already a riled up old fart, let me tell you about autocompletion. Why does MS have to autocomplete entire commands from ambiguous strings?

      And the kids don’t get it. They don’t even write the code anymore, let alone understand it… I want coffee flavoured coffee, heavy metal and for dark mode to fucking die!

      That felt better, I’m sorry for anybody making it this long.

      I'm just an old fart

  • crapwittyname@feddit.uk
    20·
    8 hours ago

    Cwtch is one of my favourite words. Pronounced like “clutch” without the L. It means hug.
    “Give us a cwtch ye daft old sod” ❤️

  • Codpiece@feddit.uk
    16·
    8 hours ago

    Ah yes. A language forced onto unwilling participants by people who still think it should relevant in the modern age. And the other one is a Celtic language.

    • Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml
      17·
      7 hours ago

      C will be relevant till the heat death of the universe. if humanity ever dooms itself back to the stone age, all it would require is some bloke to invent a rudimentary binary computer and some nerd to write a basic C compiler for it, humanity will doom itself again in less than 50 years.

            • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
              22·
              2 hours ago

              How long have Welsh people have internet? How many Welsh people have and had the means to archive the language, maybe even try and popularise it? How long was the Welsh government held back from (and probably they were) from teaching it a schools? Did nobody have the chance to create free, accessible Welsh courses for anybody to access? How many Welsh people that could speak it made an effort to teach their kids and others?

              There are options to keep language alive. I can understand it being wiped out (many examples and ways to do so), but if it survives and the people speaking it don’t make an effort to spread it, modernise it, and adapt, then it is also self-inflicted. Look at the Baltic countries. Estonia tries to keep up with the times and allows the population to vote on Estonian words that should enter their dictionary instead of the anglicised ones.

              • AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml
                2·
                1 hour ago

                I don’t see how not doing the healing work for the wound is the same as self inflicted.

                All of those are questions are good historical questions that provide historical insight to the conditions that prevented this restoration of Welsh being as wide spread. But you write them as accusations, not as points for insight.

                And the wounds, while similar, are much older in the case of Welsh which means it could be harder to organize people to do the healing work.

                It’s very odd to me that you think this is self inflicted and that people aren’t doing the healing work. Why are you so sure? I’m assuming you’ve looked into it.

                • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
                  1·
                  12 minutes ago

                  Why do you think I’m sure? Do questions assert certainty?

                  You write as if you know what happened and why Welsh is dying out. Answer the questions then instead of whatever moral grandstanding you’re doing.

              • d00ery@lemmy.world
                2·
                1 hour ago

                There was a suppression of the Welsh language in schools up until fairly recently.

                Now this has been reversed and Welsh is taught in schools, some state run schools are primarily Welsh language, and there are rules for government bodies to provide Welsh language documentation and signage.

                There’s also courses, tv and radio channels.

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Not

      • Wander@sh.itjust.works
        341·
        8 hours ago

        Self inflicted. Self inflicted! What? The fucking English did it through domination.

        Self inflicted.

        Of course the English banned it in school look up Welsh not.

        The fact that Wales was conquered by England so long ago and the language and culture still exist is a miracle.

    • Venator@lemmy.nz
      15·
      9 hours ago

      according to Google translate:

      rhowch: give

      cwtch: hug

      mwyn: ore

      wmffre: Humphrey

      • Manticore@lemmy.nz
        10·
        7 hours ago

        The trick is that ‘w’ represents an actual double-U vowel sound in Welsh. Not remotely surprised that’s what was picked up

  • Diddlydee@feddit.ukEnglish
    50·
    17 hours ago

    I’m just scrolling by and saw the Welsh. I know none of the others, so by a process of elimination, I know them all.

    • VeganBtw@piefed.socialEnglish
      41·
      17 hours ago

      Assuming the question implies an inclusive OR, I know all the answers too : True, True, True, True, True, True, True, True.