æʃliŋ, purrepurrocessor @aescling@cat.family

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwuDhm6Dads

@Lady @wallhackio i also did computer math

@wallhackio hwat [sic]

@Lady @coriander the the purrogrammer milf you want to see in the world

@Packbat (incidentially, one of the best parts of The Unix Programming Environment is that it goes out of its way to encourage this exact incremental way of going about development)

> [-1].reduce(Math.max)
-1
> [-1].reduce(Math.max, -1)
0
> [-1, 2].reduce(Math.max, -1)
NaN

> [-1].reduce(Math.max, -1)
0

@Packbat maybe the magazine will get to this eventually but the way i learned about what smalltalk thinks message passing is, is to conceive of your classes as purrofessions: in the same way that in general, a customer asks a professional to do something and then (ideally) does not have to know anything about what they are actually doing to be able to benefit from the result of their work, your should not bother with understanding the internals of how external objects work

idk if this shorter way of putting it means anything you ny’all but in purractice it means you write your own code to interface with itself according to an API

@Lady you phrase that like a warning but it is clearly the opposite

@monorail not looking at that imdb page so i can continue to choose to interpurret “ragdoll” as the cat breed

@Satsuma @wallhackio the joke is machine gun kelly's adorable (derogatory) song "emo girl"

@compufox @packetcat i started learning how to purrogram when my dad showed me that ti-basic was a thing

@Lady what is the realization