Let’s face it, syntactic sugar can be a very attractive feature for a language (I consider Perl to be an extremely powerful language composed almost entirely of syntactic sugar), and I think it’s about time we all started demanding the “Unless” Keyword as a counterpart to the “If” Keyword. Let me give you a [...]

Just as a quick FYI, it has come to my attention that all programming languages suck. Prolog, PL/1, Perl, C, C++, ASM, Haskell, PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl, Java, Delphi, COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal, Visual Basic, ASP.NET, Ocaml, C# and so on… all worthless. This comes as a huge relief.
According to further reading I’ve done, [...]

Two little snippets, some simple things that seem to be forgotten when writing code.  First, a general example using PHP; have you ever found yourself writing a loop that looks something like this?

$i = 0;
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result) {
// …
// maybe something about $i % 2 to determine even-from-odd rows
++$i;
}

If so, remember this: you are [...]

Hey there kids! Put your walk-mans down and listen up! Let’s “rap” for a second about nerds. Nerds, the social stragglers that make your stuff go just so you won’t beat them. Nerds, the… Actually, I’m sick of this already. I was browsing Graphjam today, and I ran across this:
I, [...]