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alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 2 years ago

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alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 2 years ago
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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    I first started programming with TurboBasic which had the oh-so-amusing characteristic that you could have variable names of any length but the compiler only used the first two letters (and case-insensitive at that). So “DonutCount” and “DoobieCounter” actually referred to the same variable.

    Really good times trying to debug that kind of shit.

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      I’m trying to write an intentionally bad programming language. Don’t give me ideas.

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        Make sure you add a “Variant” type lol.

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          It’s called a String.

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            Oh you sweet summer child. The Variant type in VB was so much worse than just a String.

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              I’m just complaining since I have the fortune of using a language where everything is represented as a string.

              What is 3 + 5?

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                35, naturally!

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                  A lot of people would say 8, I’m glad I didn’t have to correct you.

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