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lol @ hn spam attack

this is the fastest I’ve ever seen a project of this size (including all the specs and papers associated with it) get renamed

of course big parts of the orange site are tripping over themselves to call this language clever and… maybe I’m in a particularly bad mood, but I just don’t see it. the syntax looks like a fucking disaster (and I like ML-style languages) and the features seem to be a grab bag of features from existing languages and CS research. it’s basically the kind of testbench language you design to explore the problem space and never release, but here it is with a webpage and a name and papertrail in the docs that point to the designer being a real shithead.

it’s possible I’m being unfair to the language (its designer definitely seems like a shithead) — is there anything coherent here that I’m just missing?

That guy defending the book in the comments by going 'he is 19, I also thought the same when I was 19 and only realized later that he was intended to be the bad guy'. Oof... (And double oof as his comments goes from 'I didn't get this message at 19, and now 15 years later, I get why others dislike the book, without really making it 100% clear that he himself also considers Humbert the bad guy. (In the few times I had the misfortune of talking to pedophiles, this is the type of squirrelly language they use. Not that this means the person is a pedophile, I assume he isn't and just expresses himself poorly there, he just gives off a dodgy feeling with that one comment. Anyway, think the devil has enough lawyers).

Edit: I would esp be wary of playing devils advocate for somebody who writes this in their design document:

Afterword 1

There are three kinds of beauty:

[ first kinds excluded ]

Beauty by perversion. In "The 120 Days of Sodom", the main characters liked to play weddings where the male groom was dressed up like a female bride, while the female bride was dressed up like a male groom.

That is a very odd example to pick from that book. Certainly considering everything the past few decades.

@gerikson @techtakes

Is the compiler named “Humbert”?

@o7___o7 @dgerard

Omg, I did not know about this one.
This is hilarious and very, very weird.

Okay, that was actually funny, even though I understood zero of the in-world references. Is the whole SCP project like that or is this one an outlier?

I was of the impression that it's just X-files meets bad creepypasta (I remember the one from years back where some paper-mâché statue chased you around when you weren't looking at it) and never paid much attention to it.

I LOLed a lot but also it's extremely long and someone worked way too hard on this