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You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 8 months ago by flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 10 points 8 months ago

Go look at that Lisp kojumbo then tell me Rust is ugly.

(defmethod wake ((object magic-packet) address port)
  (let* ((payload (encode-payload object))
         (size (length payload))
         (socket (usocket:socket-connect nil nil :protocol :datagram :element-type '(unsigned-byte 8))))
    (setf (usocket:socket-option socket :broadcast) t)
    (usocket:socket-send socket payload size :host address :port port)
    (usocket:socket-close socket)))

Actually unreadable.

[-] Zak@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Entirely readable to someone who knows Common Lisp, and unreadable to someone who doesn't know any kind of Lisp. Mostly readable to someone who knows Emacs Lisp, Clojure, or Scheme.

Being able to correctly guess what the syntax does without knowing the language is a function of similarity to familiar languages more often than it is a characteristic of the syntax itself.