1958
- John McCarthy and Paul Graham invent LISP. Due to high costs caused by a post-war depletion of the strategic parentheses reserve LISP never becomes popular. In spite of its lack of popularity, LISP (now ‘Lisp’ or sometimes ‘Arc’) remains an influential language in ‘key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension’.
— James Iry, A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
1991
- Dutch programmer Guido van Rossum travels to Argentina for a mysterious operation. He returns with a large cranial scar, invents Python, is declared Dictator for Life by legions of followers, and announces to the world that ‘There Is Only One Way to Do It’. Poland becomes nervous.
— James Iry, A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
1995
- Yukihiro ‘Mad Matz’ Matsumoto creates Ruby to avert some vaguely unspecified apocalypse that will leave Australia a desert run by mohawked warriors and Tina Turner. The language is later renamed Ruby on Rails by its real inventor, David Heinemeier Hansson.
— James Iry, A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
2009
- ⚯
- ⚭
- honeymoon
- ♥
- signore
/* obligatory Perl joke (omitted for brevity) */
— Tomasz Dubrownik
$ signore prego
// sometimes I believe compiler ignores all my comments
$ signore prego Lisp
Lisp: from the people who didn’t bring you AI.
$ signore prego Python
If I wanted just one way of doing things, I would
have joined the army, not get involved in computers.
[Abigail, hates-software]
$ signore prego Ruby
Cloud is to datacenter what Ruby is to assembler.
[DevOps Borat]
$ signore prego Python Ruby
Python has three idiomatic ways to flatten a list, depending
on who you ask. Two are O(n²). Ruby has one way. It’s O(n).
[Gary Bernhardt]
$ signore prego Python Ruby
‘I swear, Ruby has more syntax for creating strings than Python has total.’
‘"what" + %[are] + <<STR you STR + %q(talking) + 'about?'’
[Gary Bernhardt, Jeff Forcier]
$ signore prego Lisp ~Python Ruby
I love Ruby’s optional parentheses. Lisp doesn’t have optional parentheses.
[Jamis Buck]
$ signore pronto Lisp
text?
(What the world needs (I think) is not (a Lisp (with fewer parentheses))
but (an English (with more.)))
author?
Brian Hayes
source?
The Semicolon Wars
subject?
(What the world needs (I think) is not (a Lisp (with
fewer parentheses)) but (an English (with more.)))
[Brian Hayes, The Semicolon Wars]
Mutt | Vim integration
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Mutt | Vim integration
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map ,st G?^-- $<CR><Down>dG:r! signore prego tech<CR>Go<CR><CR><Esc>
Mutt | Vim integration
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map ,st G?^-- $<CR><Down>dG:r! signore prego tech<CR>Go<CR><CR><Esc>
map ,se G?^-- $<CR><Down>dG:r! signore prego en<CR>Go<CR><CR><Esc>
Mutt | Vim integration
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map ,st G?^-- $<CR><Down>dG:r! signore prego tech<CR>Go<CR><CR><Esc>
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# it’s in the standard library
# and has Marshal and YAML backends
require 'yaml/store'
store = YAML::Store.new 'sigs.yml'# sigs are author + text structures
Sig = Struct.new(:author, :text)
# sigs are author + text structures
Sig = Struct.new(:author, :text)
store.transaction do
store['db'] ||= []
end# sigs are author + text structures
Sig = Struct.new(:author, :text)
store.transaction do
store['db'] ||= []
store['db'] << Sig.new('Tim Pope',
'I wonder if the guy that wrote BigDecimal#inspect has ' +
'a tragic backstory that explains why he hates humanity.')
end# sigs are author + text structures
Sig = Struct.new(:author, :text)
store.transaction do # a read/write transaction…
store['db'] ||= []
store['db'] << Sig.new('Tim Pope',
'I wonder if the guy that wrote BigDecimal#inspect has ' +
'a tragic backstory that explains why he hates humanity.')
store['db'] << Sig.new('Pаul Bаttley',
'I’d love to see an honest Ruby job ad. ‘You will spend half ' +
'your time running bundle install & the other half facepalming.’')
end # …is atomically committed here# read-only transactions can be concurrent
# and raise when you try to write anything
store.transaction(true) do
store['db'].each do |sig|
puts sig.text
puts '-- ' + sig.author
puts
end
end$ ruby sigs.rb
I wonder if the guy that wrote BigDecimal#inspect has
a tragic backstory that explains why he hates humanity.
-- Tim Pope
I’d love to see an honest Ruby job ad. ‘You will spend half
your time running bundle install & the other half facepalming.’
-- Pаul Bаttley
$ cat sigs.yml
---
db:
- !ruby/struct:Sig
author: Tim Pope
text: I wonder if the guy that wrote BigDecimal#inspect
has a tragic backstory that explains why he hates humanity.
- !ruby/struct:Sig
author: Pаul Bаttley
text: I’d love to see an honest Ruby job ad. ‘You will spend half
your time running bundle install & the other half facepalming.’