Not in Perl there is... :-P
I wish I had someone for that... I my current project I have to do everything, from the data-layer to the markup and CSS. I really much prefer working "under the hood" (regardless of client or server) and leave the pixel-pushing to people who actually enjoy it (and know what they're doing). A the times when I got a fully working template from the designer and only had to fill it with "life"...

Couldn't agree more... I hate doing the 'design' element of web design and would much rather be coding stuff behind the scenes. Unfortunately my personal websites rarely require any serious code and it's mostly HTML and CSS (and some PHP)

What could be more self-explanatory than the attached perl code (from the internet)?

And I also attach the output (which I ran in cygwin).

That is awesome.

I spent most of my life up till now working with photographers and designers with images, so having something visual to focus on and work with feels pretty natural. When I've gotten to work with a designer to just implement a design it's been a lot more of a comfortable, rewarding experience.

I wanted to be one of those creative types growing up, but I've found out over time that I'm only so-so. That turns out to be a general problem as I'm one of those jack of all trades types that can do most anything, but not anything all that well. Where do you put a guy like that? Back end slinging mediocre code or on the front end? I think I would like the front end but it seems like such a person it is expected to be either a designer or have pretty serious JS skills (or both) to rock out the async stuff.

I've written a fair amount of JS code at this point, but if I'm going to have to seriously code stuff I'd prefer it to be in C#. JS is so loose it's super easy to get yourself into weird places and not know how you got there. .NET just has so much to offer and the compiler is pretty great at keeping you from making bone head mistakes. It's also a lot easier to trace code. JS lacks any real concrete relationship between things to the point that it feels like code mush when trying to mentally unravel it, where as in .NET a couple F12's can usually get you pretty close to the bottom of something.

Maybe it makes more sense when you do it more. So far I've only had to work on my own JS code. I'd hate to hear what my successor is going to say when he has to figure out the last application I wrote.

0_o

That's real art.

An interesting tidbit you might not know: git was actually written by Linus Torvalds (the original author and current maintainer of the Linux kernel) for use with the Linux kernel.
You can actually write CGI in pretty much any programming language. I even once wrote a toy example in either C or C++. Just be careful about security issues (there's a reason those two languages aren't widely used for this purposes).

Maybe Rust might be a good language for this purpose, since it has rules (checked at compile time) to prevent memory errors from happening.

Do you, by any chance, have a link to any website that explains why trinary (or better yet, e-nary) is the most efficient?

(Note that I actually do have a mathematics background, so it is not a problem if that site is heavy on math.)

You don't need generators, closures, static and class methods and decorators to program Python. The stuff is there, but you don't need to know about it to write useful programs. (The stuff can sometimes come in handy, of course.) In fact, even though everything is an object, you don't actually need to know it. You can learn the basics first, and then learn the rest when you actually start to need it.

That was actually a third thing they said after mentioning git. And I must admit, I was really surprised!

Well, professionally 15 years as a SAS programmer, that's statistical programming not special forces :o)
Add to that some C#, VB(A). And outside work have dabbled in most languages from back in the days of basic on Spectrum, Cobol/Ada at Uni etc.

When I was younger I used to write adventure games, text based, then moved into point and click using a free copy of Delphi. Don't have the time any more though, would like to put some time into really learning Godot.

Interesting thread!

Let's not forget i was using Geocities at the time (since bought out by Yahoo, and then discontinued). I seriously couldn't find any information on the API, what programs i had access to for running or scripting or anything. Maybe CGI was easy, but i had nothing to work with with my inexperience.

Look up the International Obfuscated C Code Competition. It's in C, but the idea is to write code that is intentionally hard to read. Some interesting results have come out of it, including a BASIC interpreter and even an x86 emulator. At lease one submission was a game played through error messages (it didn't compile, but instead gave, as errors, the description of what's going on).

This is the absolute devil for a coder, there is no right or wrong way to code (ok there is a wrong way) and something we all tend to do and get a little lazy but do make it common practice to comment and set reminders in your code, you can of course edit those out when your code is complete of course but it certainly helps if you ever have to come back to it at a later time.

Oh yes, the delightful Obfucsation. If you want to go really extreme:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language
I mean a whole language using just the word "Ook", the Librarian must have invented that on Hex!
Am afraid my tastes are simpler than that:
select NEEDLE from HAYSTACK

Don't forget Whitespace, a programming language whose code consists of non-printing characters.

Of course, that means I can't post an example on this forum because it doesn't preserve whitespace characters. (Posting Python code is bad enough because indentation, which this forum doesn't preserve, is part of the syntax, but Python is at least designed to be readable, unlike Whitespace.)

By the way, anybody heard of INTERCAL? Better yet, has anyone tried to write code in it? Even better yet, has anybody done so with punch cards?

Of course, you need to be careful not to put user input directly into the SELECT statement.

Imaging if you replace NEEDLE with user input, and then a user typed something like the following:
NEEDLE') from HAYSTACK; DROP TABLE HAYSTACK; --

(This might be a bit off, but you get the idea. If it's wrong, you might get strange errors.)

Sometimes, doing things the simplest way can lead to security issues. Just ask little Bobby Tables.

https://xkcd.com/327/