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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://social.sdf.org/users/mjgardner/statuses/112623809599064641">Mark Gardner (mjgardner@social.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 02:47:10 JST</a><a href="https://social.sdf.org/@mjgardner" title="mjgardner@social.sdf.org"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/83251-48-20250110220911.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Mark Gardner" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Mark Gardner</a><div><a href="https://social.sdf.org/@mjgardner/112606394588538568" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a><ul><li><li><a href="https://gnusocial.jp/user/100277" title="drmorr@hachyderm.io">drmorr</a></li></ul></div></section><article><p><a href="https://tilde.zone/@mhd">@mhd</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/@drmorr">@drmorr</a> I love the <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Perl" rel="tag">#Perl</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/programming" rel="tag">#programming</a> language because in so many places it obeys the Principle Of Least Surprise—but *only* if you’re a normal person and not a stuck-up Real Programmer.</p><p>A normal person says, “Of course I can check how many things I have (elements in an array) by comparing to a number.”</p><p>A “Real Programmer” throws a fit because arrays and numbers are not the same thing, dammit, and their job is to explain to the computer how to do *its* job, dammit.</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3394287#notice-6676851">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-07-19T02:47:10+09:00" title="Friday, 19-Jul-2024 02:47:10 JST">about 10 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://social.sdf.org/@mjgardner/112623809599064641" rel="external" title="Sent from social.sdf.org via ActivityPub">social.sdf.org</a></span></span><a href="https://social.sdf.org/@mjgardner/112623809599064641">permalink</a></footer></blockquote>

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Mark Gardner (mjgardner@social.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 02:47:10 JSTMark Gardner
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@mhd @drmorr I love the #Perl #programming language because in so many places it obeys the Principle Of Least Surprise—but *only* if you’re a normal person and not a stuck-up Real Programmer.
A normal person says, “Of course I can check how many things I have (elements in an array) by comparing to a number.”
A “Real Programmer” throws a fit because arrays and numbers are not the same thing, dammit, and their job is to explain to the computer how to do *its* job, dammit.
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