• BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
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    3 hours 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