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Man, Dantom has ruined me for other programming.

I needed to do some work using an object system that I used to consider elegant and simple to use.

Argh! It had all these extra characters! I had to end lines with semi-colons! I had to use braces instead of indenting!

I felt like I was slogging through a swamp, and having to do a whole lot of extra typing and code-obscuration in order to give the machine what it needed, rather than make the code work for me as a human.

But now it's the weekend and I'm back to the great Byond!
On 7/22/00 5:17 pm Deadron wrote:
Man, Dantom has ruined me for other programming.

I needed to do some work using an object system that I used to consider elegant and simple to use.

Argh! It had all these extra characters! I had to end lines with semi-colons! I had to use braces instead of indenting!


Oh yeah, the other thing that was a massive pain: string handling. After the elegant approach to dynamic strings in Byond, having to use format strings in other languages seems truly barbaric.