We’re different people.
> Arf("fetchez le dico".vers())
I remember that many of the other languages popped up a little later.
Just like it may be amusing to watch "Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood" as long as you understand satire.
If you don’t know the idiom, you should check it out, it’s both particularly vulgar and very commonly used.
An implementation of OCaml (similar to Haskell, but from France instead of UK), but with french pastries name. It was half a joke, half a serious study project.
https://github.com/vanilla-extracts/ocaml-baguettesharp-inte...
fk lese(&selbst, schlsl: Zeichenkette) -> Ergebnis<Möglichkeit<&Zeichenkette>, Zeichenkette> {
wenn lass Etwas(wöbu) = gefährlich { WÖRTERBUCH.als_ref() } {
Gut(wöbu.hole(&schlsl))
} anderenfalls {
Fehler("Holt das Wörterbuch".hinein())
}
}
This absolutely is not readable to me. But woerterbuch and schluessel should of course not be abbreviated, for legibility.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_for_Applications?...
I just can't stop laughing at the "génial" => "super" https://github.com/bnjbvr/rouille/blob/principale/rouille_co...
I always felt the same and one theory I have is because the imperative nature of source code feels rude if you try and put it in French. It feels like yelling orders to a dog.
Then I don't know if it's just because in French, despite everyone calling us rude, we are usually quite polite. Or if it's the same for every ESL.
The first time I encountered a non English PL, I did feel the same uncanniness you spoke of. It felt... wrong? I wish I remembered which one it was. It was probably the first time I realized how prevelant English was, and that PLs could even be written in any language .
So I think at this point, for me, programming languages just aren't English. One odd thing I've noticed is that in Ruby the `unless` keyword confuses the hell out of me, and yet when speaking English I never get tripped up on the actual word "unless". So I guess it's handy that the keywords in programming happen to be English words, but my comprehension of programming languages seems to occupy another region of my brain.
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the__alchemist•5h ago