StackExchange: "This question has more than 500 answers already. Did you read through all the existing answers first to make sure your answer will be contributing something new?"
Oh, I know. It's just--implying that the only way to avoid duplicates is to read every single one of the hundreds of answers, rather than e.g. searching to see if your language has previously been used...
(Of course, the message is designed for Q&A sites, where it's not so easy to filter using search in that way. But then, who's going to read through 500 answers in any context?)
Regenerate, 14 bytes
Hello, World\!
Try it here!
Regenerate is my new regex-match-generation language. The hello world program is pretty simple: just the literal string as a regex, with the ! escaped because it's a metacharacter.
@pxeger ATO:Attempt This Online is an online sandbox environment for running code in an ever-growing list of programming languages, both practical and recreational.
ATO:Regularly maintained: new languages and features are added by request all the time
There's been a cluster of Perl-hate on Stack Overflow lately, so I thought I'd bring my "Five things you hate about your favorite language" question to Stack Overflow. Take your favorite language and tell me five things you hate about it. Those might be things that just annoy you, admitted design...
Readability is the most important aspect of your code.
Even more so than correctness. If it's readable, it's easy to fix. It's also easy to optimize, easy to change, easy to understand. And hopefully other developers can learn something from it too.
> Design patterns are hurting good design more than they're helping it.
IMO software design, especially good software design is far too varied to be meaningfully captured in patterns, especially in the small number of patterns people can actually remember - and they're far too abstract for people to really remember more than a handful. So they're not helping much.
And on the other hand, far too many people become enamoured with the concept and try to apply patterns everywhere - usually, in the resulting code you can't find the actual design between all the (completely meaningless) Singlet…
is there a way to dump an entire chat room into a file (like all messages or w/e)
i think design patterns are the whole AbstractSupplierGeneratorConsumerFunctionFactory meme or w/e
no clue tho i read a book on design patterns that my dad had from his workplace and thought "wow this is really stupid I could just do what I need and make it work"
like, obviously, I should write maintainable and readable code, but if I'm flooding it with frameworks and patterns because that's "correct" and then I end up not being able to read it myself, what's the point lol?
to quote the footer of another answer about how unit tests suck
> Most "Best Practices" in Software Engineering are there to keep bad programmers from doing too much damage.
They're there to hand-hold bad developers and keep them from making dumbass mistakes. Of course, since most developers are bad, this is a good thing, but good developers should get a pass.
I'd like to consider myself a decent dev - at least, I can calculate the area of a circle - and I mostly agree with this; "best practices" shouldn't replace just using your own knowledge and dev skills, but for people who have none, I guess it's the best alternative :P
Print this sequence I just made up
To get this sequence I just made up, which will subsequently be referred to as TSIJMU, consider the harmonic series:
\$ \frac{1}{2} + \frac{1}{3} + \frac{1}{4} ...\$
But what if you only add a term if it doesn't make the sum so far over 1, and otherwise subtract...
@hyper-neutrino I sort of agree with this, but with the added catch that ideally, a good developer should write code that a bad developer will be able to maintain later, after the good programmer has moved on to a different company. You may not need best practices yourself, but using them can be a way of hand-holding the programmer who comes after you.
(I say this as someone who isn't really up on all the Software Engineering thought and jargon, though, so maybe I'm missing the boat on what "best practices" means.)
Most comments in code are in fact a pernicious form of code duplication.
We spend most of our time maintaining code written by others (or ourselves) and poor, incorrect, outdated, misleading comments must be near the top of the list of most annoying artifacts in code.
I think eventually many pe...
an opinion I saw in that discussion is that code should be self-documenting so to speak - the code itself should show what it means and does when you read the code
if you are writing code that needs to be commented, the code itself should be more clear
if you are writing code that is clear enough, it shouldn't need comments
Personally, I find that comments are only really useful for explaining what something is that is unclear (e.g. a magic number). As soon as you need comments for more than just a specific small bit of code, you're doing it wrong
@cairdcoinheringaahing Jyxal allows multiquicks, but I doubt I'll ever need to use them, and they were a compilation nightmare. (I've sorted it out now, but...)
@hyper-neutrino CMC: Write code that documents itself
The other things are just minor annoyances (mostly stuff that isn't built in, like fractions or image handling). I would have added the fact that you have to assign a regex match object to a variable and then test if it exists, but they solved that with the := operator in 3.8.
Gets overlapping strides of the input, Uninterleaves the top, x prints the entire stack, checks if any items in tos is true and then overlapping strides again
Regenerate, 14 bytes
Hello, World\!
Try it here!
Regenerate is my new regex-match-generation language. The hello world program is pretty simple: just the literal string as a regex, with the ! escaped because it's a metacharacter.
Readability is the most important aspect of your code.
Even more so than correctness. If it's readable, it's easy to fix. It's also easy to optimize, easy to change, easy to understand. And hopefully other developers can learn something from it too.
