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The Perfect Programming Language

2023-06-21 Science & Technology
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Recorded live on twitch, GET IN https://twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen Author: https://twitter.com/todepond Author has a YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TodePond MY MAIN YT CHANNEL: Has well edited engineering videos https://youtube.com/ThePrimeagen Discord https://discord.gg/ThePrimeagen Have something for me to read or react to?: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePrimeagenReact/

Top Comments (10)

@Robin_Goodfellow 2023-06-21

My biggest takeaway from this parody is that new languages often have 3 or so really interesting, possibly useful features, but also about 30 completely deranged features that guarantee its failure

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@dzisonline 2023-06-22

"AI does not use AI. Instead, any incomplete code will be auto-emailed to Lu Wilson, who will get back to you with a completed line as soon as possible"

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@SimGunther 2023-06-21

A language that transcends languages in that it never once cared for the problems software engineers wanted to solve; however, it still has the cajones to say all this without ONCE mentioning "I took all the things"

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@mathijsfrank9268 2023-06-21

So loops are actually possible, just use 2 "reverse!"s and let the first one be a boolean that's false the first time you pass it.

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@pashadia 2023-06-21

I take it that "affects all users forever" also persists multiple invocations of the program, even if the actual declaration is changed. Who's the genius now, Tom?

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@drplasma1990 2024-02-04

"This is a language worse than JS!" Please, do not be this closed minded. You haven't even tried it yet and you are already making such bold statements.

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@lucaslinhares4071 2023-06-21

better than javascript

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@AScribblingTurtle 2023-06-21

This language is ingenios! The Author must be a pupil of Tom.

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@ThePrimeTimeagen 2023-06-21

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@freeideas 2024-07-18

"Type annotations don't do anything, but they help some people to feel more comfortable". Python.

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