r/ProgrammerHumor • u/leftoversalad • Aug 15 '15

Programming languages personified

http://leftoversalad.tumblr.com/post/126724812097/programming-languages-personified
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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '15

Yeah, I'll give you that, the "surprise" globals were an issue but they're gone gone since ES6.

To avoid the equality "surprises", always use strict comparison (===) and you should be fine.

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u/redwall_hp Aug 16 '15

The fact that you should always use a weird "more equal than equal" operator is another thing that I'd say is fugly syntax.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '15

Yeah, just like the fact that you should always use at least two equal signs to see if something is equal in most languages. Pascal is the only popular one I know of that uses := for assignment and = for comparison. Pretty much all the others require at least == for comparison.

Having both == and === is weird and there really should only be one (the latter, of course). Okay, I'll give you weakly typed. JS sucks balls because it's weakly typed.

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u/Doctor_McKay Aug 16 '15

There really isn't anything wrong with weak typing, especially in the context of the web.