Although the company that I'm going to interview with now did ask me my plans for afterwards: whether I would be interested in living in the US permanently
and whether I would go back to Belgium after the internship
Is it reviewable? Sure.
Should we review? I guess, if someone feels so inclined--but why?
But for me, there's not much point to it. It's truly a toy-language. No one will ever write any serious production code out of it. Moreover, the example questions we have of it show that the language ...
I think it just kind of goes against the entirety of the spirit of Code Review. (brainfuck as well I think, but lolcode seems more obviously against it)
lolcode and brainfuck are both silly things, and don't belong here in the strict sense, but we gotta lighten up sometimes. I think they bring some color, so we're not all so very super serious
@nhgrif I can understand your point in a way about brainfuck, although I do not agree. While doing brainfuck I learned to think in an entirely new way. Brainfuck is, IMO, not a "toy" language. Esoteric, yes, but not a toy. It is incredibly heard to make something useful in Brainfuck
Tough decision here, I'm giving you the checkmark on this one.. but I'm surprised nobody mentioned that I'm doing 3*5 at every iteration, could have used a I HAS A FizzBuzz ITZ PRODUKT OF Fizz AN Buzz outside the loop. — Mat's Mug6 hours ago
I can't speak on behalf of lolcode, but I can speak on behalf of Brainfuck: Performance: I believe it is possible to simplify my Brainfuck program by structuring the tape better, or simplifying how you setup the tape or whatever. (Perhaps even taking an entirely different approach to it) Organisation/Readability: The readability comes a lot from how you present the code. A BF program without comments should never be posted on Code Review. I did my best at making a "good" Brainfuck question.
Also, another question... if it weren't for my downvote on your LOLCODE fizzbuzz, it'd be on the first page even if you limit only 15 questions per page. Do we really want this to be a shiny example of one of our best all-time ever asked questions?
There are pretty good questions asked every single day here on Code Review. Questions about programming languages that serious programmers use in a very serious way on an every day basis. Questions for which I, while at work, could potentially browse to, read, and make an improvement in my production code based on the answer. I couldn't EVER do that for a LOLCODE question. It's no value to me, because no matter who I work for, I'll never be writing production code in LOLCODE.
So it's not that the question shouldn't be allowed.
It's just that it's extraordinarily disappointing to me that the 36 upvotes and my downvote make it apparently the 16th best question on the site of all time.
@Mat'sMug I honestly have not voted on your question at all. The main reason I haven't downvoted is because I have a Brainfuck question myself. I can't really convince myself that "My BF question is good, lolcode questions is bad"
If there is another lolcode question within 7 days, then I think we might have a problem.
It's just really bothersome to me that this question has 95 total upvotes between the question and all the answers. Meanwhile, I only average 4 upvotes per Objective-C answer and 2 upvotes per Swift answer. I understand that these languages aren't so popular on the site overall... but there are a ton of really good Objective-C and Swift questions and answers, and there are definitely more people fluent in Objective-C and Swift that are regulars to Code Review...
The highest upvoted ObjC question is 15 upvotes. Less than half the upvotes this lolcode question has and the lolcode hasn't been up for nearly that long.
That's questionable. But I treat FizzBuzz sort of like Hello World. You should be able to implement it in any language and it's a good way to get your feet wet with a new language.
Whether or not it's a good fit for CodeReview, I don't know. But FizzBuzz to me is sort of the first step toward writing more serious code in that language.
What's the most serious code anyone would ever write in lolcode?
The problem is, because lolcode is silly, it gets a ton of upvotes. Meanwhile, a bad question in any other programming language gets an appropriate-ish amount of upvotes.
Welcome to Code Review, where we talk about lolcode.
The complete SQLConnect library can be found here.
The file from which the following method belongs can be found here.
At some point I may or may not open questions for reviewing other aspects of this library, but I intend to keep the questions relatively small. This is the largest method in t...
Following-up on Creating ADODB Parameters on the fly and pushing the "wrapping" of ADODB a step further, I have written two more classes that allows me to expose methods that don't require a Connection object, without returning an ADODB.Recordset.
Taking this method as a reference:
Public Func...
If it were Java and Objective-C, it's very easy for me to chalk it up to the fact that there are (at least) 3 times as many Java browsers than Objective-C browsers.
There are not 3 times as many lolcode browsers as there are objective-c browsers.
I don't disagree with that entirely... but as a question that's probably borderline in terms of this site's scope, a good developer has to always be certain they're using the appropriate language for the job.
For which job is lolcode a good programming language to use?
At the moment i am auto loading my classes with:
spl_autoload_register(function ($class) {
require_once 'classes/class.'. $class .'.php';
});
And Instantiating the class with:
$backend = new backend();
$dashboard = new dashboard();
$article = new article();
$video = new video();
$theme = ...
@nhgrif of course not. lolcode is as useful as brainfuck or kturtle on that aspect: you learn the language to see how you can do what you already know, in that language... and how is that different from learning c# as a java developer?
The point is, I've got a bag of programming languages to use as tools. When I see a nail, I get my hammer. When I see a screw, I get my screwdriver. What sort of problem is available for which the right tool to use is lolcode (or brainfuck)?
If you posted a lolcode question on StackOverflow, would you get answers, or would you be closed as off-topic because you should be using a real programming language to solve your problem?
What the spec says on the subject:
Iteration loops have the form:
IM IN YR <label> <operation> YR <variable> [TIL|WILE <expression>]
<code block>
IM OUTTA YR <label>
Where <operation> may be UPPIN
(increment by one), NERFIN (decrement
by one), or any unary function. That
oper...
@nhgrif For Brainfuck it's all about the learning experience. You just don't do things in the same way. Brainfuck is however not a 'production-language'
@Mat'sMug My vote would be lolcode out but brainfuck in, which would cause the grey. Which means that my vote is: As long there is no problem, it's OK. Again: If there is another lolcode question soon, then it would be a problem.
It might be worth pointing out that StackOverflow, which has 7.9 million questions has just 7 lolcode questions, 2 of which are closed (not specifically because they're lolcode). The first of these was posted February 2009. They're averaging approximately 1 on-topic lolcode question per year. And the highest voted lolcode question over there is somewhere around page 800 at 50 questions per page.
@SimonAndréForsberg Hmm, there could be an option to completely remove post from view, I'm sure it was discussed at some point and they decided that was the best way to do it..
I haven't used lolcode-dot-net, but from your code it seems you're trying to simply pass a parameter to a function.
Per the LOLCODE 1.2 language specs, this is the syntax for calling a function:
I IZ <function name> [YR <expression1> [AN YR <expression2> [AN YR <expression3> ...]]] MKAY
Thi...
We've started working on some software to communicate to some assembly-line machines.
He's basically taught himself VB (he started at this company 10 years ago doing their website and then they started developing ERP software from scratch)
Xcode is free if you're on a Mac. There's also an iOS simulator for iPhone 3.5", iPhone 4" (32 and 64-bit), iPad non-retina, iPad retina 32 bit, and iPad retina 64 bit
In my eyes most of the GNU stuff is bloated and doesn't realy fit my view of how a linux envierement shuld look like. So I have come up with my own minimalist impementation of the GNU Coreutils, but i did not touch C in a long time and my programming style reflects that little. rmdir.c is a good ...
> There are a few requirements that must be adhered to when developing for iOS on Visual Studio. As briefly mentioned in the overview, a Mac is required to compile the .ipk file, and applications cannot be deployed to a device without Apple’s certificates and code-signing tools. The iOS simulator can also only be used on a Mac.
Style
Minor nitpicking: your style is not 100% consistent.
int main(int argc, char** args){
// should be
int main(int argc, char **args){
while(1) {
// should be
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Pattern
I think this block is very, very unusual.
switch(parents){
case false: remove_dir(path, verbose); break;
...
and if I'm pimping other people's answers...
let me pimp my unloved perl fresh zombie answer too:
Your function expects a single argument that should contain hostnames or patterns separated by spaces:
sub expand_names {
my $host = shift;
my @raw_hosts = split(' ', $host);
foreach my $raw_name (@raw_hosts) {
Why not use multiple arguments?
sub expand_names {
foreach my $raw...
A problem posted here to Code Review prompted me to experiment with a general-purpose merge-sort algorithm for any fixed-length record data.
External / File-based mergesort
I answered that question, which specifically deals with int values in a file, and proposed an answer that suggested a Mapp...
Is it reviewable? Sure.
Should we review? I guess, if someone feels so inclined--but why?
But for me, there's not much point to it. It's truly a toy-language. No one will ever write any serious production code out of it. Moreover, the example questions we have of it show that the language ...
Following-up on Creating ADODB Parameters on the fly and pushing the "wrapping" of ADODB a step further, I have written two more classes that allows me to expose methods that don't require a Connection object, without returning an ADODB.Recordset.
Taking this method as a reference:
Public Func...
At the moment i am auto loading my classes with:
spl_autoload_register(function ($class) {
require_once 'classes/class.'. $class .'.php';
});
And Instantiating the class with:
$backend = new backend();
$dashboard = new dashboard();
$article = new article();
$video = new video();
$theme = ...
What the spec says on the subject:
Iteration loops have the form:
IM IN YR <label> <operation> YR <variable> [TIL|WILE <expression>]
<code block>
IM OUTTA YR <label>
Where <operation> may be UPPIN
(increment by one), NERFIN (decrement
by one), or any unary function. That
oper...
I haven't used lolcode-dot-net, but from your code it seems you're trying to simply pass a parameter to a function.
Per the LOLCODE 1.2 language specs, this is the syntax for calling a function:
I IZ <function name> [YR <expression1> [AN YR <expression2> [AN YR <expression3> ...]]] MKAY
Thi...
Your function expects a single argument that should contain hostnames or patterns separated by spaces:
sub expand_names {
my $host = shift;
my @raw_hosts = split(' ', $host);
foreach my $raw_name (@raw_hosts) {
Why not use multiple arguments?
sub expand_names {
foreach my $raw...
A problem posted here to Code Review prompted me to experiment with a general-purpose merge-sort algorithm for any fixed-length record data.
External / File-based mergesort
I answered that question, which specifically deals with int values in a file, and proposed an answer that suggested a Mapp...
