Comments and nature of languages

From: Ivan Boldyrev
Subject: Comments and nature of languages
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 04:07:19 +0000
Message-ID: <r0n9k1xp0j.ln2@ibhome.cgitftp.uiggm.nsc.ru>

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I love Lisp because I can write comments as smileys:

(some-code-here)     ;)

And the smiley perfectly reflects mood of many lispniks.

After long debugging of core file C++/Java monkeys write comments like
this:

*p++=*q++;          //-:

And the smiley perfectly reflects mood of many C++/Java programmers.

Perl is another interesting example:

s/"([^\\"]|\\.)*"/\1/                      #->

And the smiley perfectly reflects mood of every yet another Perl
hacker.

- -- 
Ivan Boldyrev

                                        | recursion, n:
                                        |       See recursion
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