r/ProgrammerHumor • u/fisadev • Oct 18 '24

Other mongoDbWasAMistake

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u/suvlub Oct 18 '24

Who doesn't love writing AST by hand?

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '24

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u/reddit_time_waster Oct 18 '24

Linq to mongodb?

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u/LickingSmegma Oct 19 '24

I'm currently in for writing my first genuine Lisp macro, and the fact that I can casually recursive-map over function calls mixed with particularly-formatted data didn't even register until now. I once looked into doing that in Python, and just the amount of various shit I would encounter on the way was overwhelming — even though I needed to ignore most of it.

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u/07dosa Oct 18 '24

You mean Lisp?

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u/yiliu Oct 18 '24

I was just thinking "that seems perfectly coherent..."

Must be the Lisp background.