mcc, 14 days ago

In some Buddhist traditions, it is held that Mucalinda, a snake-like creature, protected the Gautama Buddha from the elements as he sat under the Bodhi Tree following his attainment of enlightenment. What connection this has to the Python programming language is unclear.

mcc, 14 days ago

Update: I have had to edit the top post here because I have just been informed that PHP has both this and also self. Every time I think I understand the depths of depravity in which PHP wallows new abyssi are revealed to me

urlyman, 14 days ago

@mcc is it wrong of me that what I take from this is adding the plural of abyss to my lexicon?

mcc, 14 days ago

Programming languages which believe nothing, nothing at all: PHP

ocdtrekkie, 14 days ago

@mcc My prevailing theory when writing PHP is that if I think a pattern should work, it probably does, somehow.

mcc, 14 days ago

@ocdtrekkie This works for me with Perl but because it works for me with Perl it does not work with PHP or Ruby and so I cannot write those languages.

psycodepath, 14 days ago

@mcc it all died when we believed in PHP 6

lafncow, 14 days ago

@mcc PHP is the language of the streets. Other languages live in the chaos of web applications, but PHP was born here.

lambdageek, 14 days ago

@mcc now do CLOS

mcc, 14 days ago

@lambdageek CLOS has already achieved Nirvana

glyph, 14 days ago

@mcc if there’s one thing I demand in my programming languages it is ambiguity with respect to doctrine

mcc, 14 days ago

@glyph Well then let me tell you you are going to love C++

glyph, 14 days ago

@mcc I want chaotic good not neutral evil

glyph, 14 days ago

@mcc i.e. there is a difference between "doctrine" and "principle" :)

glyph, 14 days ago

@mcc (I did laugh out loud when I saw this response, though)

thgs, 14 days ago

@mcc

I honestly find this classification so interesting. I do fail to understand how PHP is practicing the doctrine of Anattā (which I just learned about).

Update: Not just PHP, I fail to understand how you actually separate them all.

thgs, 14 days ago

@mcc is it because of "self" keyword ?

mcc, 14 days ago

@thgs Yeah ^_^

thgs, 14 days ago

@mcc

but we do have "self" in PHP

thgs, 14 days ago

@mcc

it goes usually, but not always next to the legendary "Paamayim Nekudotayim" operator.

Example:

self::hello('world')

thgs, 14 days ago

@mcc Can also be a type-hint. Return type hint or argument type hint. Like

public function something(self $sameInstance): self

(accepts same class instance and returns same class instance).

No practice of Anattā from PHP, I am afraid..

mcc, 14 days ago

@thgs You WHAT

Checks Google

Oh no. Oh NO