this language is batteries-included (the batteries expired in 2001)

[joe@f.duriansoftware.com]

this language is batteries-included (the batteries expired in 2001)

[joe@f.duriansoftware.com]

remember to take the batteries out of your programming languages before putting them in long term storage

[pervognsen@mastodon.social]

@joe Python still has random junk like difflib. By ESR of all people!

[helge@mastodon.social]

@joe Programming in 2026: SMR(s) included.

[tekknolagi@mastodon.social]

@pervognsen @joe tbf I used difflib a lot until very recently when I joined a ruby team

[_the_cloud@mastodon.social]

@joe Now you tell me. I opened up NewtonScript and discovered it was full of soup.

[dotstdy@mastodon.social]

@pervognsen @joe that's what they call owning the libs

[joe@f.duriansoftware.com]

@pervognsen one decade's "batteries included language" is the next decade's "language with permanent electrolyte damage"

[cocoadog@mastodon.social]

@joe I wish you'd told me sooner. I now have a case that blew up and caused a broken switch.

[kapunta@merveilles.town]

@joe i replaced the old batteries in Snobol but had to reuse them in my language so no it has a command for punching cards.

[onegeekarmy@mastodon.social]

@_the_cloud @joe I got the joke! 😁