[sdiy] Programming Language Recommendation

[john slee]

Golang does.

https://golang.org/ref/spec#Integer_literals

It has become my language of choice nowadays — feels like the perfect
bridge between dynamic and compiled languages, but with first class CSP
primitives included.

John

On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 at 11:17, Eric Honour <autophage at gmail.com> wrote:

> Perhaps it's just me but when I see numbers like "0x80000000" I cringe,
>> grit my teeth, and feel my eyes glaze over. I never could see very well but
>> that is absolutely illegiible. Are there any languages/IDEs/whatever that
>> can put some commas in there and still compile without an error?
>
>
> I'm not aware of any out of the box, but in most compiled languages you
> could add a build step that strips them away - and some development
> environments are sufficiently customizable that you might even be able to
> coerce one to display commas that aren't actually in the "real" source file
> (or set up some other way of differentiating - for example changing the
> text color every 3 digits in a row).
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 5:58 PM KA4HJH <ka4hjh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Dec 8, 2020, at 2:42 AM, Jason Tribbeck <jason at tribbeck.com> wrote:
>>
>> That sort of reminds me of a friend of mine who was using a CPU (and
>> compiler) whose NULL address was 0x80000000.
>>
>> Caused no end of trouble when porting code from programmers who instead
>> of comparing a pointer with NULL just checked it against zero...
>>
>> I.e. they did this:
>>
>> if (my_pointer) address_is_valid();
>>
>> Instead of:
>>
>> if (my_pointer != NULL) address_is_valid();
>>
>>
>> Classic. <facepalm>
>>
>> Perhaps it's just me but when I see numbers like "0x80000000" I cringe,
>> grit my teeth, and feel my eyes glaze over. I never could see very well but
>> that is absolutely illegiible. Are there any languages/IDEs/whatever that
>> can put some commas in there and still compile without an error?
>>
>> I started out using hex In 6502 and 6811 assembler (with the "$" prefix)
>> so to me that's $80000000. I prefer hexadecimal over every other "commonly"
>> used numeric base. Not only do I find it to be the "easiest" for doing
>> "computer stuff" but after working with CEEMAC for a while I discovered
>> that bases that are *even* powers of two are the most "elegant". CEEMAC is
>> basically a parameter generator for creating abstract animation and I did a
>> lot of tweaking constants by multiplying/dividing by 1.5 and 3. Once I got
>> the hang of doing that I was truly in love with hex.
>>
>>
>> Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
>> "The Mac Doctor”
>>
>> Who is still dreaming of creating a new version of Brooke Boering's (RIP)
>> CEEMAC
>>
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