v/programming: [Humor] How to save the princess using 8 programming languages

14 u/Retron 06 Oct 2016 09:45

Python: You type in

import heroic_knight
princess.rescue = true

and wonder why other people make things so hard for themselves.

2 u/durchfall 06 Oct 2016 12:24

Then you get two stack traces

4 u/sir_hanselot 06 Oct 2016 12:55

import heroic_knight
from global_standards.western import legal_age
princess_store = {}
if princess.age < legal_age: 
    princess = heroic_knight.do_rescue(princess)
    princess_store[princess.name] = princess
elif princess.age <= 29: heroic_knight.do_rescue(princess)
else: pass

3 u/tame 06 Oct 2016 11:09

Original

3 u/Troll 06 Oct 2016 12:30

I wonder how rescuing princess in Haskell would look like.

4 u/BeniBela 06 Oct 2016 16:59

You just need to apply the rescue function on the princess in the world monad, but it is too lazy to do that.

3 u/qx9 06 Oct 2016 18:25

Rescuing the princess is impossible, since both the princess and castle are immutable.

Instead, you make a new princess that is free but otherwise identical.

3 u/SoloPoloVision 06 Oct 2016 17:21

There are worse languages than PHP (that I've been forced to support), like ASP Classic and Coldfusion.

I'd take PHP over those 2 any day!

1 u/tame 07 Oct 2016 09:24

PHP is like a greasy hamburger. There's probably more stuff in there than you really need but hey, it gets the job done for pretty much everyone and it tastes alright.

3 u/raydeen 06 Oct 2016 22:14

10 PRINT "I'M COMING PRINCESS! ";
20 GOTO 10

2 u/tame 07 Oct 2016 09:25

05 REM WEDDING KNIGHT

2 u/Atarian 07 Oct 2016 12:48

Ahahaha. Lisp has brackets. Haha. Yeah.

1 u/vaginitis20161116 19 Nov 2016 05:37

I was wondering what the comic was trying to say. I've been programming in Lisp long enough that languages without fully parenthesized prefix notation seem harder to read.

1 u/Atarian 22 Nov 2016 11:22

It's odd, but I actually enjoy the problem solving aspect of doing things in an alien way. I coded in C like languages for so long, it took me ages to get used to it.

Lisp is love, lisp is life

-1 u/toobaditworks 06 Oct 2016 20:41

PHP is not that bad. Suicide? Really? PHP is rather simple actually.

1 u/Atarian 07 Oct 2016 12:49

PHP is that bad.

[Humor] How to save the princess using 8 programming languages

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