Comment on Anon is a math prodigy

lime@feddit.nu ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  File fails to compile, web server tries to run the file, error.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nodejs exists. Here’s a JS snippet that would throw an exception:

    for (x = 0; x < 5 x++)
    {} 
    

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If the file failed to compile the server wouldn’t execute it because a file wouldn’t be created. A compile error stops the process, It doesn’t result in a corrupted output, since that would be really stupid.

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    • joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You must have never used the eclipse Java compiler.

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    if your server runs user-submitted code server side, that’s a paddlin

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    • Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It never said user code.

      This could as well be an intro to php and the server may be set to not show errors and instead just fail.

      The lecturer then writes some code, forgets a semicolon and gets a 500.

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• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If the web server is implemented in any of the languages that require semicolons.

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    why would you demo a for loop with a web server

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    • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      For the same reason our OS memory management class was in Java, a language without pointers, because some idiot decided all courses had to be standardized on the same language because the industry says they need people who know that language now.

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    • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      As one step of building a bigger project that demonstrates something web-ish.

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