2025-01-19 00:24:10 <zelgomer    > that's just demonstrably false
2025-01-19 00:26:11 <zelgomer    > why are you not the first person i've heard making this claim lately? is this the new leftist mantra? after they fucked up the economy, now they try to convince everyone it's not their fault because nobody could possibly understand it?
2025-01-19 00:27:03 <zelgomer    > the truth is that economics have been very well understood for centuries, it's just socialists who don't get it
2025-01-19 01:00:01 <veltas      > Variables make stuff so much easier
2025-01-19 01:00:30 <veltas      > I'm glad I use them a lot
2025-01-19 01:06:35 <zelgomer    > the problem with variables is that they're always changing
2025-01-19 01:24:35 <veltas      > Word... word never changes
2025-01-19 01:30:34 <KipIngram   > I'm a little hard core about variables.  I avoid them unless the data actually needs to be around long-term.  I don't use them for "stack relief."  I've got another mechanism for that (that I also try not to use unless things get really messy).
2025-01-19 01:42:40 <vms14       > I like temporary variables that will only exist during the execution of a colon word and disappear after it, as some sort of auxiliar variable for binding stack elements
2025-01-19 01:43:43 <vms14       > concat langs have a feature I always wanted in a language which is to duplicate the value of an expression without having to create a variable for it btw
2025-01-19 01:46:07 <vms14       > in my abomination I have both temporary and normal variables
2025-01-19 01:46:37 <vms14       > but they have more uses since it has lexical scope
2025-01-19 01:48:24 <vms14       > that's some super unreadable code I wrote in my abomination
2025-01-19 01:48:25 <vms14       > https://termbin.com/emzd
2025-01-19 01:49:02 <vms14       > I was trying to clean it a bit but got distracted
2025-01-19 01:49:03 <vms14       > https://termbin.com/u4y2
2025-01-19 01:50:10 <vms14       > it's a todo list, the second one will be a grocery list app which is similar
2025-01-19 01:50:34 <vms14       > I should make the snake game with curses to see how it compares with the experience I had in forth
2025-01-19 01:50:55 <vms14       > I enjoyed making the snake game in forth actually
2025-01-19 01:51:08 <vms14       > even if it felt hard and had no idea of what I was doing