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00:20
@NathanMerrill 9? What's that?
 
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05:51
ok, so optional semicolons are all the rage right now.
but here's the thing: if you don't need them, why allow them?
like, either require them everywhere, or nowhere
the only (somewhat) useful purpose for them is multiple statements on the same line
which, honestly, sounds like a really bad reason to add them to your language
the best reason I can come up with is "Every other language supports semicolons to end a statement, so we might as well"
06:04
I have no idea what you're talking about with optional semicolons being all the rage
But this "you don't need to do that" attitude is something I don't like to see in a language design.
 
6 hours later…
12:26
@feersum Javascript, Kotlin, Go, Swift
I've only heard about the JS evil way, with multiple parsing options.
I'm sure none of the others do that, right?
oh yeah, JS is easily the worst example
I'm not sure what you mean by "you don't need to do that". Are you talking about my attitude towards languages with optional semicolons, or the language's attitude towards semicolons?
I don't see the distinction; I'm saying I don't like that as a language design philosophy.
 
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17:20
@Feeds My mind is blown.
 
1 hour later…
18:48
Does anyone have experience with generating LaTeX code / documents using another language?
For a Portuguese vocab assignment, I wrote Python code that took verb stems and generated conjugations, outputting LaTeX code that I then rendered with TexMaker. So...I guess that maybe counts? :P
It was pretty inelegant, but certainly more interesting than doing it by hand. :P
Well I wanted to print a custom chart for manual calculations, and I do not like what the output of the pdf libraries I've tried so far look like.
So I thought why not generate some Latex/tikz code and use that
But it would be nice to have some better built in way to generate stuff
the foreach/ifthenelse is pretty limited and cumbersome to work with
Hm what language should I be using ....
19:04
Python, of course. It's the best language for everything, period.
19:19
so, no PHP?
or TI-Basic? XD
I am actually considering haskell
which actually is the best language for everything
20:21
Found this very interesting comment
"Compactness is the continuous analogue of finiteness." -- sleeps_with_crazy
 
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21:56
from here and here
the behind the scenes is as cool

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