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[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 hours ago

I think the definition for me would be geek

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

D: You're unpopular and a nerd.

[–] ookiiBoy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

Fuck. Ocaml looks cool as hell. I should learn it.

[–] Overspark@feddit.nl 72 points 2 days ago (1 children)

HTML 5 isn't a programming language! (Yes, I'm a nerd)

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Assuming you're talking about HTML5 & CSS it actually is Turing Complete.

[–] stetech@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Wrong. Well, at least incomplete.

You need user interaction (e.g., clicking on a button) and HTML & CSS for Turing Completeness, apparently.

[–] ookiiBoy@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's a programming language regardless of it's completeness. You give a computer instructions, in a DSL, it gets interpreted.

Don't gate keep.

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My voyager app is a programming laguage. When i click post, it gets interpreted and sends a comment to the server

Btw, is english a programming language cuz AI interprets it and does something with it?

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

Who is “it” which interprets things? Is it part of HTML/CSS?

[–] ookiiBoy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The browser. When it reads the HTML and creates a DOM based on the provided instructions.

[–] stetech@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

So where in that can I encode an arbitrary program? Like one could do in JavaScript?

[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Create a table of checkboxes with the rule 110 CSS applied.
Translate your program to a rule 110 program and put it in the top row of the table.
Advance the computation by checking the marked (orange in the example) checkboxes row by row.

Example

[–] stetech@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Well yeah, with CSS and user interaction it’s understandable… as I’ve linked above.

The question was if this is possible for purely-HTML markup descriptions without CSS nor clicks, and it was a rhetorical one.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 15 points 2 days ago

Has anyone ported doom yet?

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How dare you. I'm a physicist, not an engineer.

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

That's weird, a physicist that deals with the empirical world, how does the rest of your tribe feel about you? I promise you we can treat you better in engineering, but the initiation might be a little hard for you. It includes a lot of chanting "pi is 3", "what good is science if you don't apply it", and "that's a weird parameter, I'll just try setting it to one"

If you want to code like MATLAB but keep the leather elbow patched sports jacket and cozy office, maybe try getting plastered and code Visual Basic, it has the same feeling to it.

[–] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Bottom left made me miss Kmart

[–] azi@mander.xyz 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

when you're so much of a nerd that your favourite lang isn't in the meme (it's Ada btw)

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] villainy@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Awesome! I guess I'm a nerd!

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I guess I'm an awesome nerd!

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[–] Beastimus@slrpnk.net 23 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Is this a safe space to say that my favorite programming language rn is Python?

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Only if you use it for systems programming

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Especially writing drivers amirite!

[–] embed_me@programming.dev 9 points 2 days ago

Its okay. I'm sure you'll get over it.

When did you get diagnosed?

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

No

Tap for spoiler/jk obvi I like Python

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago
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[–] thisfro@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is Fortran really your favorite language?

[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’s easy syntax for math

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

What about Julia?

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[–] potoo22@programming.dev 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

What if you don't have a favorite programming language? I'm a firm believer that each language offers a specific set a features that makes each one uniquely suck and I often find myself at the crossroads of continuing to use this garbage or to learn a new language only to find it sucks in a different way. (/s another way of saying each language has its niche... (but sucks outside of it))

[–] bdjegifjdvw@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

You are a nerd

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Thank goodness, apparently I'm not old.

[–] Naich@lemmings.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Technically, half of those are scripting languages not programming languages.

Anyway my favourite is Bash because I'm weird, even for a nerd.

[–] azi@mander.xyz 18 points 2 days ago (6 children)

how is a script not a program??

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[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not Verilog though. That shit is for jocks.

[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Vhdl gang rise up.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 4 points 2 days ago

No !haskell@programming.dev ? How the mighty have fallen.

It's still my favorite for now, though I do find Idris and Purescript compelling, too, for different reasons.

[–] Canis_76@feddit.nl 5 points 2 days ago

Truest words ever. Would flash/action script be considered?

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