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F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email (itsfoss.com)
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[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 33 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

This gotta be ragebait, everyone know that a language isn't bad or good only for a single thing, hell there is no bad language, the reason why "python is better" is because you use it to make kids learn how to program, this is a good use, every other use is just...not good since it's slow as hell and the indented syntax make it hell to write with but i'il gave you that python > go for making kids learn.

[–] DrCake@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There’s no bad language you say? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Don't you fucking dare speak badly of my beloved Brainfuck

In fact, take this fully functional Fibonacci sequence generator I did some time ago, so you can repent from your blasphemy by looking at its beauty.

;>;>;<<[->>[->+>+<<]>>[<<+>>-]<<<[>>+<<-]>[<+>-]>[<+>-]<:<<]
[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Damn someone made Ogham script into a coding lang?

image

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Looks like a bad LLM's try at drawing ASCII fish.

[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That isn't a bad language. It's pretty simple and it serves a cool purpose, which is to convey the power of a Turing machine. Now this is a bad programming language.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Malbolge is great for replying to anyone who claims that since programming languages are Turing-complete, any one of them is fit for the job.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

You can transpile from C to Malbolge and then run it (this will probably take forever for most of C programs). I thought it can be used for obfuscation, and sure enough Wiki already states that:

Hisashi Iizawa et al. also proposed a guide for programming in Malbolge for the purpose of obfuscation for software protection

[–] msage@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

JS?

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