Yes, us programming geeks get way too accustomed to communicating in coding shorthand.
Comment on Monday SOTD Thread - December 30th, 2024 (#569)
walden@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks agoI was trying to attend to our more, shall we say, “European”, users. I believe they use the colon, but I’m often wrong about these things.
I’ve never heard of EBNF and after a quick search I don’t think I have any interest in learning! I only know the “++” from other shavers, and learned years after the fact that it was some sort of programming nomenclature.
gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks ago
DaveWave94@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks ago
As a European, I hope you in the US use your colon too - how does digestion work otherwise?! /s 😂
Joking aside, you’re exactly right. Except (most parts) of the UK, Europe mostly uses a 24-hour system for our time telling needs. I personally think that’s a bit more intuitive on digital clocks, but even some analog clocks over here reflect this by having their 24h equivalent either above or below the number in the 12h circle. We also seem to have fewer time zones: essentially PorkButtsNTaters666, djundjila and me share the same time zone despite living in different countries.
ENBF sounds about as interesting as a 7 hour long slideshow about the cultivation of potatoes in Prussia, but the “++” stuff stuck around and I don’t mind it at all. I thought it was just something from ProgrammerHumor though, since C++ is a programming language.
snooting@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks ago
++and–are increment and decrement short-hand operators in C-style programming languages.In other words, they either mean add 1 to this value (
++), or subtract 1 from this value (–).DaveWave94@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks ago
Thanks! I think that makes perfect sense.
snooting@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks ago
EBNF is some heady shit, I don’t blame you for having no interest in learning it. It does allow you to describe syntax with a level of precision that’s quite impressive though. It’s satisfying in a very nerdy kind of way.
walden@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks ago
It does appeal to me, as I’ve always had an interest in being able to use computers to their fullest potential, but I’ve also always been bad a learning new languages.