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The Natural Philosopher:

> On 21/12/2021 12:41, Arno Welzel wrote:
>> Jonas Thörnvall:
>>
>>> I have a bit hard to read monkey gibberish, is there a way to explain this to someone who is not fullfledged retarded?
>>>
>>> .then(res => res.arrayBuffer())
>>> .then(ArrayBuffer => ctx.decodeAudioData(ArrayBuffer));
>>>
>>> Specifically
>>> .then  =>
>>> Is there another way to write it that may not be gibberish?
>>
>> Just because you don't know every detail about JavaScript does not mean
>> that this is "gibberish".
>>
>> See:
>>
>> <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Promise>
>>
>>
> And remember that te primary purpose of extending computer languages is to
> - make yourself look smart
> - sell text books
> - sell training courses
> - make people who don't buy the above effectively redundant, as they can 
> no longer understand your code.

If you don't like this - don't use JavaScript. It may not be the right
thing for you.

> The fact that async syntax in JavaShite is total utter crap, is, in this 
> context, an advantage. I mean what tosser invented 'promise' ?

Friedman, Daniel and David Wise coined the term "promise" about 1976.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_and_promises>

"Scheme" which was invented 1975 also implements the concept of promises
eventhough it was not named like that back then:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_(programming_language)>

JavaScript re-discovered this in the late 2000s when asyncronous
execution of code became the de-facto standard for web based
applications. Promises as they are known today are usable in most
browsers since about 2014, so they are not really new there either.

> I guess it was some millennial snoflake who once saw the term, 
> 'master-slave' in a textbook ' and 'male plug female socket' in a parts 
[...]

I wouldn't call people who where already adults in 1970ies "milennial
snowflakes".


-- 
Arno Welzel
https://arnowelzel.de