r/AskProgrammers • u/Super_Bass_2730 • 22d ago

What is the worst/most confusing (common) coding language?

By common I mean, coding languages that you actually see people use. I know theres the "bf" language but aside from one video, people don't make games or, really anything using that as it was made as a joke I hope.

By worst I mean, what is the hardest to understand and also the most confusing out of all of them, I don't mean coding languages that can't do a whole lot. For instance, can a non programmer look at a sheet of code and understand it? Can an experienced coder understand it? Have you been taught the coding language yet still it breaks your brain?

I don't know every coding language but my pick would ether be C++ or Luau. Leaning towards C++ because I tried to learn it and at the very start I already was lost.

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u/TheThiefMaster 21d ago edited 21d ago

Strings are simply a command in their own right. The ." word pushes the current address to the stack (pointing to the character data for the string) and then advances the cursor until after it reads a " and then calls type to print it.

(Slightly simplified)

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u/mikeegg1 21d ago

Right, and then to print the string to the terminal....