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  • okamiueru@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Which programming languages do you know?
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    2 months ago

    I find this question very interesting. What does it mean to “know” a programming language. They map to certain paradigms for how to solve problems, in various degrees, with different tradeoffs there for surrounding tooling, libs, and what not.

    A bunch of the most familiar ones are procedural with different sprinkles on top, and they pretty much do the same things when it comes to the “language” side. So, “knowing” one, or another, IMO, has little to do with the syntax, parsing and keywords, and is much more if you have suffered through cryptic compile errors, figured out good debugging tooling, etc.

    Which is to say, if we compare these two list

    • C++, Haskell, Prolog
    • C++, Java, Python, Rust, Kotlin, Objective-C, Dart, etc

    I’d consider the first one much more impressive in terms of diversity in “knowing programming languages”. And, I say that as someone belonging squarely in the latter.

  • okamiueru@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do Americans measure everything in cups?
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    3 months ago

    To anyone who tries watching the first one, just skip ahead to 6:50 where he actually starts explaining his reasoning. I can summarizer them here

    • “Volume is visible”
    • “You gotta scoop your stuff out with something, so it might as well be by something that measures volume”

    The third one was too dumb for me to follow. Something about if you measure stuff by weight, you end up with large portions.

    The fourth one was just absurd. No one measures spices by weight… So not being able to measure 1.2g of cinnamon or what not, just isn’t a thing.

    Alright. I’ll stop there. The arguments presented go from fairly bad, to dumb, to made up stuff no one does. The arguments against them are so easy to express:

    • “Amounts” of cooking ingredients is mass, so if you want to measure that, you… might as well just measure that, ie weight.
    • Amounts that make sense to measure by weight, you measure by weight.
    • Spices, and stuff that makes sense to measure by volume, you measure by teaspoon, pinches, or what not. Rarely is the accuracy there all that important, tbh.