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How do you deal with executive dysfunction? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by Amicchan@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I usually just ignore societal rules and only do activities that I want or need to do.

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[–] sudoreboot@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I sympathise with the syntax often getting in the way. On the flip side I find untyped languages opaque, leaving me to guess what code actually does. Lisps are a great offender because macros, syntactic primitives and functions look the same but behave differently, and without type signatures it becomes a mess.

The thing with type systems is that they only reveal the gestalt of something that's already there. All languages have types. It's just that many don't bother to correct you.

I tried to write a language parser in Guile, but when I couldn't figure out what the different data structures actually looked like I eventually gave up.

[–] Amicchan@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I see your viewpoint.