You can write C-code obscurely too. But, somehow, Perl seems to encourage this sort of thing... 20 years ago my CS-professor dismissed Perl as a "write-only" language — since then my conviction of him being right has only grown.
I understand but disagree. Any language can be a write-only language if you don't care about maintainability. Then there are the wannabe gurus that save 3 lines of code not to shorten the program but to impress others. Even worse, there are people that criticise readable code for it being too simple. If you ever worked in a team of programmers with varying skills then you appreciate simple, readable code. You also will once you had to take over unreadable code.
Vocês crianças saia do meu gramado!
(You kids get off my lawn!)
I have to say. It is not correct, but is exactly what a foreign neighbor of mine would say me years ago !
I confess to have used Google translate. I would have done a better job at Spanish as it is more similar to Italian, my mother language. But here we are.
Nope, two words, one apostrophised.
I looked it up. Both you and the professor are right. The correct term seems to be contraction. Thanks for clarifying.
In two words, you're wrong
Not to start a nuclear war with a professor, but those are three words.
Let's discuss this over a bottle of Ripple.
(Don't know Ripple myself but it seems appropriate to illustrate your point. Fred Sanford ruled!)
I stepped renounced my religion at the age of 8.
Nobody is qualified to deduce whether there is a god until they've developed a profound appreciation for the laws of physics, and their elegance. (In other words, even most Doctors of Theology aren't qualified.) And then, each individual should confront themselves with this question: did the laws of physics just write themselves, or does their sublime cleverness indicate that they were authored by some highly intelligent entity?
How was your knowledge of the laws of physics at age 8?
You sound much like a creationist. You want people to seriously consider entertaining narratives as a plausible truth. As if there were a higher, better power, that however can't be bothered to make itself unambiguously clear to us idiots. And then you hijack physics.
By the age of 8 I realized that I was jerked around by all religious people I met until then. And that, based on simple logic, god simply could not exist. I really gave it a very long thought and I resolved to dissociate from my catholic upbringing. No hard feelings towards the ones left behind but I simply wasn't to perform a U-turn.
Factorials were someone's attempt to make math LOOK exciting.