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      I think white space should be used to represent basic functions too. For example 3 spaces can be used to sum two values while 4 spaces can be used to subtract.

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        Yes, however indentation still defines block and the operator (white space in same cases) has to come right after the white space for the indent

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    Confusion like this got me my current job. They were looking for somebody with experience in “Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager”, and I look that up and I’m like “Oh, that’s SCCM, I do that”. Go through the interview process they keep asking me if I know Endpoint Configuration Manager and I’m like “yeah, for sure”. I get the job. Day one, the other systems engineer is like “here is the link to our Endpoint Manager Tenant”, and I’m like “oh… Shit I have never ever used this”

    Well… Ends up Endpoint Configuration Manager and Endpoint Manager are two different things. Fortunately for me they are pretty similar in function and rely on knowledge of Windows and Powershell, which I know.

    So my first 2 weeks of work was taking a shitload of courses in Endpoint Manager and watching a lot of videos and learning it inside and out.

    2 years later and I’m an Endpoint Manager/Intune pro.

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      90% of IT and software jobs are “I have common sense, know how to look up information, and my boss is intimidated by my work so they don’t question it.”

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    It uses XML-like syntax:

    <fun>
      <name>sum</name>
      <in>
        <int>foo</int>
        <int>bar=0</int>
      </in>
      <out><int>foo+bar</int></out>
    </fun>
    
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      <fun>
        <name>sum</name>
        <in>
          <int>
            <name>foo</name>
          </int>
          <int>
            <name>bar</name>
            <default_value>
              <int>0</int>
            </default_value>
          </int>
        </in>
        <out>
          <int>
            <calculation>
              <numerical_operation>
                <operator_plus>
                  <operand>
                    <var>foo</var>
                  </operand>
                  <operand>
                    <var>bar</var>
                  </operand>
                </operator_plus>
              </numerical_operation>
            </calculation>
          </int>
        </out>
      </fun>
      
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      Can you please link to a medium article on how this will help utilize AI blockchain so i can show it to management on Monday?

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      I like it, this is clearly very enterprisey and solution focused, but I would like to suggest a couple of amendments if I may?

      • Namespaces We should make full use of namespaces. Make the structural tags be in a language specific namespace (to be referenced in every function spec, obviously) but change the in an out params to use the parameter name as the tag, namespaced to the function they’re for, with a type attribute.

      • In memory message queues Have all function invocations be marshaled as xml documents posted to an in memory message queue. Said documents should use a schema that validates the structure and a function specific schema to validate the types of arguments being passed. Namespace everything.

      I reckon we could power a medium sided country if we could generate energy from the programmers despair.

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      Make sure to make ample use of mixed content elements.

      <statement><var>bar</var> = <int>0</int></statement>
      
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      I almost did similar with SDLang as I was very desperate for a scripting language, but now I have a wasmtime API for D.

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      The tag indentation is a required part of the syntax and don’t forget colons at the end of the tag

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      That’s basically how the Android app Tasker works. You do the programming through its UI, but when you export/share your tasks, they’re saved as xml

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      I took every coding class my highschool offered, and the only thing that drove me more crazy than this syntax was trying to use CSS.

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    Make it purely functional, lisp based with reversed Polish notation and APL symboles, I dare you mf

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    Make it so the capitalization affects the scope.

    Oh wait.

    (Sorry, I recently had to switch to golang for work, and I’m just not used to it yet, and I’m getting annoyed by some of these design decisions)

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    What if every variable would have to use a pointer that points to a reference of the data in a central array. In normal languages you’d need a variable to store said array, but what if it too has to reference itself in itself, so we get some funky recursion.

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    So the matlab thing where all lines not terminated by semi colon are printed except use Greek question marks instead of semi colons.

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      I like this but to make the code more readable the Greek question mark should also be placed upsidedown at the start of every line that needs to not be printed.

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        Should it raise an error of treat it as a comment for lines with neither? Im leaning towards treat it as a comment will make debugging harder.

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          I agree. If there is no Greek question mark at all it should be code that is printed to console. If there is an upside down at the start and upside right at the end it is just normal code. If upside right at the end only, it is a comment. Only upside down at the start it will be treated as debug specific code and will not be run in production compilations.

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            Beautiful its perfect. We should also nudge the develop in the right direction with equality checking im thinking we say √10 = √g = π = 3 = e but we will use === for this and if u want o check exact values u need to use ==== and == will be to assign variables so = can be used as an operator for dedining an equation that happens to be an object.

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    Just today I heard someone whining about how in LinkedIn and other recruitment sites there’s like five bazillion profile tag options for RDMBSes and various dialects of SQL… when in actuality the recruiters are probably only concerned if the developer can do a bloody SELECT and stuff.