Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.lang.javascript > #37722

Re: Comparisson with a list arguments.

Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Date 2019-11-08 06:53 -0800
References (2 earlier) <1e310742-4ab9-45d4-9504-b9e61ec92a05@googlegroups.com> <2477dad4-800e-49e8-b0e7-67733fad2467@googlegroups.com> <cc9bda7a-9187-47fd-ac70-f5b18dd5a0e2@googlegroups.com> <d5a81bca-3d60-4f08-8950-afc1aa38e15e@googlegroups.com> <aikasehiomkk2a9v5jal9oftlhadbpj0gf@4ax.com>
Message-ID <429bb126-e786-4b2f-a18f-8721ef66597e@googlegroups.com> (permalink)
Subject Re: Comparisson with a list arguments.
From Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com>

Show all headers | View raw

Den fredag 8 november 2019 kl. 12:33:55 UTC+1 skrev John G Harris:
> On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 01:30:03 -0800 (PST), Jonas Thörnvall
> <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>   <snip>
> >But is not the idea to make things as easy as possible, not as obfuscated and convoluted as possible?
>   <snip>
> 
> The most important thing for a programming language is to be totally
> precise. If the computer does the wrong thing it's because you told it
> to do the wrong thing. It's not the job of the compiler and computer
> to notice that you might have meant this, or you might have meant
> that, then guess which you should have meant.
> 
> The next most important thing for a programming language is to be easy
> to read so that you can see what you, or someone else, told the
> computer to do. Unfortunatel, this might not be entirely possible if
> the compiler must be able to run in a small computer, e.g 16 kB with
> no disc.
> 
>   John

So much bullshit, a coherent semantic does not need to be total nonsense, the syntax is what we chose it to be.

Back to comp.lang.javascript | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Comparisson with a list arguments. Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2019-11-08 00:07 -0800
  Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2019-11-08 00:17 -0800
    Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2019-11-08 01:03 -0800
      Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2019-11-08 01:08 -0800
        Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2019-11-08 01:19 -0800
        Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2019-11-12 12:17 +0100
      Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2019-11-08 01:13 -0800
        Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2019-11-08 01:23 -0800
          Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2019-11-08 01:30 -0800
            Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2019-11-08 02:19 -0800
              Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2019-11-08 02:33 -0800
                Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2019-11-12 15:25 +0100
                Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2019-11-12 06:48 -0800
                Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2019-11-12 18:41 +0100
                Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2019-11-12 09:50 -0800
                Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2019-11-12 18:55 +0100
            Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2019-11-08 11:33 +0000
              Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2019-11-08 06:53 -0800
                Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2019-11-08 19:31 +0000
                Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2019-11-08 11:38 -0800
                Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2019-11-12 15:26 +0100
            Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2019-11-12 15:23 +0100
        Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2019-11-11 01:31 -0800
      Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2019-11-12 12:16 +0100
  Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. luserdroog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-11-08 08:35 -0800
  Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2019-11-12 12:13 +0100
    Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2019-11-12 06:39 -0800
      Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2019-11-12 18:52 +0100
        Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2019-11-12 10:08 -0800
          Re: Comparisson with a list arguments. Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2019-11-14 08:11 +0100

csiph-web