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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Please, direct your hatred for R here:

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Which one of these symbols is Bash? If none, does that mean I'm not a nerd?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I might be a nerd...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fixed! "Fotran: You are ~~old~~ dead and a nerd"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (19 children)

Most of these are scripting languages. Some are even markup languages. It's like the meme creator didn't even know what a programming language was.
I hope someone got fired for that blunder

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Matlab sucks ass no real engineers use it, only college kids.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I use R for all sorts of bioinformatics shenanigens, and I remind myself daily I am not a nerd. Even my rows of warhammer books, minis and Corvus Corax poster confirm to me I am not a nerd..... The Emperor Protects....my code

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

R still gives me chills, never hated a language until I had to use R in my PhD.

Still furious when half packages need different versions of the same thing making them incompatible.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

F in the chat for Fortran programmers.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago

A real nerd would know that React is a library and HTML is a markup language, and neither are programming languages.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

I didn't knew that (1) Fortran has such logo and (2) I am old. Shit

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I think simply knowing what the "F" is means you're old and a nerd.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's still commonly used in STEM fields.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

matlab is nobody's favourite language. although using it does require an engineering degree, which makes you a nerd.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Or a physics student who wants to cry. cue thousand yard stare to freshman year in college.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)
  • Java: you are in corporate IT
  • JS: you like surface things more than efficiency
  • Ruby: you are a gamer/modder/plugin maker
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ah, right, Ruby on Rails.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No Haskell so I'm not a nerd 😎. Though from the languages I use the most (Java & Python) and other languages I enjoy (Rust, Julia) I can infer that I'm probably a bit of a nerd.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I believe Haskell makes you the pope of nerds.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah, yes. My favourite programming language (checks notes) HTML...

If your favourite programming language is HTML, we do not grant you the title of Nerd.

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Nope, JS is “You think you are nerd”.

Also, why React is there? It’s a lib not a language

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Come on y’all, would you lay off the gatekeeping. Some of us still think the free web’s a good thing, lest we all end up in a walled garden hellscape. JavaScript is therefore needed if we’re being pragmatic. Just transpile it from TypeScript if you’re ~~too stuck up for dynamic languages~~ building something big.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I only believe in Bun.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This guy right here is a certified nerd

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

definitely a nerd's nerd.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This guy right here is a certified nerd certifier

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Bottom right should be "You're a nerd and getting old".

Source: I was dicking around with mod_perl yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No QBASIC, can not confirm.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

BASICA represent.

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