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Why do people faint at the sight of plain-text code? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

So why did we do such a bad fucking job

[–] [email protected] 1 points 28 minutes ago

Do you mean that programming languages are hard to read/write, or that the languages themselves are poorly designed?

In the former case, I invite you to read machine code. Not assembly, but straight machine code. Just zeros and ones as far as the editor can see. Any popular language is better than that.

In the latter case, I invite you to look at the design of an arbitrary natural language. Weird grammer rules, regional differences, loan words that don't fit in, etc. No programmming language is worse than that. Although I would argue that Javascript has all of those problems too in some degree.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Front end versus back end. The people who make programming languages are back-end developers. Their strengths lie with making something that works, not something that looks pretty.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I beg to differ

I can read plain-text PHP, Python or Ruby code.
I can't read plain-text, uncoloured HTML or Vue code.