Psychopath Languages: Javascript, PHP, VBA, and SQL
Masochist Languages: C, Assembly, Ada, Brainfuck, and Factor
Sadist Languages: Perl, Clojure, Erlang, and Regex
Fetishistic Languages: Erlang, Smalltalk, Elixir, and Factor
Obsessional Languages: Java, C++, Haskell, Scala, Go
Hysterical Languages: Python, Ruby, C#, Prolog, Elixir, and Matlib
Depression Languages: COBOL
Melancholy Languages: Lisp, Scheme, Smalltalk
I don't disagree.
The "melancholy" hit especially hard.
Romanticism of Lisp: how awesome it could have been if I were writing this on a modern Lisp machine.
I might choose another language for perf characteristics that JS cannot match, but otherwise Javascript is a truly expressive lang right now.
Super.
I mean I've been told I'm pretty unemotional, but sadism would definitely be a new development.
From the extended paper:
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vulk-blog/ThePervertsGuid...
Pervert, in the Lacanian definition, actually means a person who enjoys being a vessel of the rules. Zizek identifies the method of discourse that the psychoanalyst uses as the pervert’s discourse, because the analyst sits in the position of the object of desire for the hystericized subject. This means that the analysand [the person being analyzed] projects their ideals onto the analyst during a process of questioning known as transference. When we use analysis to determine why we use a programming language, we are operating in the analyst's discourse. It is important to have a basic understanding of Lacan’s terms (such as perversion) in order to understand the cultural critiques of Slavoj Zizek and other Lacanians.
“Thus, in psychoanalysis "perversion" is not a derogatory term, used to stigmatize people for engaging in sexual behaviors different from the "norm."”, Bruce Fink. A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique (Kindle Locations 2460-2461). Kindle Edition.
“The Other's desire or will is accepted by the masochist instead of the law, in place of the law, in the absence of the law. As Lacan mentions, the Marquis de Sade (better known as a sadist, but in this instance manifesting decidedly masochistic tendencies) pushes his mother-in-law, Madame de Montreuil, to the point where she expresses her will that Sade be punished. It is her desire or will that has to serve Sade as a law. Not the law, but a law.”, Bruce Fink. A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique (Kindle Locations 2805-2808). Kindle Edition.
I guess that might depend upon your regexps and how gnarly/undocumented they are :-)
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Raku's reinvention of regexes threw away the x flag. Instead comments are always supported. And whitespace is insignificant.
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Except when one explicitly asks for it to implicitly be significant. Imo this simple maneuver is shockingly sweet, the sort of thing I'm glad Larry Wall saw, with his usual piercing clarity, is brain-dead obviously precisely the right thing to do:
rule declaration { <declarator> <name> '=' <value> }
They are perhaps narcissistic languages, or obsessional.
Edit: Misread the above post. He said Matlib not Matlab. Not sure if that was a type or just referring to the plotting library, but my feelings towards Matlab still stand!
You can do that in any language, of course, but Perl and Bash are are optimized for it.
While the other hand, Java is designed to appeal to management by making software developers fungible easily disposable worker-bees.
One use Java, the other used Perl.
At some point both teams were told that they had to add a particular feature.
The Perl team was done well before the Java team.
This was a story from one of the Perl trainers. I don't remember enough about the rest of the video in order to find it online.
By this, the company of the Perl team almost doubled its turn-over in 3 weeks. The other company ceased to exist a few years later, with most of its staff integrated in the company with the Perl team.
Sadistic hysteric it seems.