clodboy @wallhackio@cat.family

just got nerd sniped very hard by https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/160438/facey-mcfaceface:

@vaporeon_ i only just noticed that heigth is spelled that way that it is here

@amy hi amy ​

@Lady as long as they're not studying imaginary concepts like "category theory" i guess mathematicians are ok

@vaporeon_ revolutionary

@Lady as a former physicist I think I have no choice but to agree

Starting to realize that @Lady thinks math majors are useless

@Lady @aescling Lady this was a program submitted to the International Obfuscated C Code Contest it was a shitpost program

Coworker: I like to call Groovy "half-assed Java". Is that a mean thing to say?

Senior Dev: Actually, it's a superset of Java so it's double-ass.

@vaporeon_ if the texture isn't gross to you the skin is perfectly edible

Shouts out to the c program which draws a circle in ASCII art in a comment and calculates pi by reflexively parsing its own source code

This took an infuriating amount of time to debug

@vaporeon_ understandable, it can be hard to operate a spoon without opposable thumbs

@monorail based

@monorail hell yeah where do I start

@monorail oh I love writing evil code I would probably like code golf

@monorail teach me, master

Groovy is supposed to be a superset of Java but there are situations where that isn't true. For one thing, the syntax which initializes an array in Java ({ 1, 2, 3 }) is syntactically ambiguous with something groovy made up called "closures" that I am not going to explain, but only if the array has a single element. If there are multiple elements the syntax is not ambiguous and things are fine

Because of this I passed a closure to something written in Java that expected an array of strings BUT IT DID NOT THROW AN EXCEPTION???????

@vaporeon_ it is a scripting language that runs on a JVM and can interface with existing Java code. It's what JavaScript sounds like it supposed to be

I think it sucks a little but but it can be fun sometimes

@monorail nope