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I'd like to inquire if you are sewing a web of intrigue? Or is some other dodge the point?
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C#: var foo = "foo";
JS: let foo = "foo";
or:
let foo = 'foo';
C#: var s = $"Foo = {foo}";
JS: let s = Foo = `${foo}`;
C#: int Fnc(string a)
TS: fnc(a: string): number
C#: braces are on separate lines
JS: opening brace is on the same line.
C#: if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(foo))
JS: if (foo)
C#: Reverse(foo);
JS: this.reverse(foo);
or even worse: this.reverse(this.foo);
Half the time I wrote the wrong syntax for the wrong language. 
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Do one language and do it well.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Do one language and do it well.
If only I could. 
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With all your years of assembler I'm pretty sure you can 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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There was a time when i could write Univac assembler code with only minimal reference to the OS reference manual. Modern languages are now so feature rich you need the SDK reference almost every few lines. Or maybe I am just not very good at it.
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A find a blend of Google and Intellisense works for me - but yes, I take your point the framework is massive. Assembler is much more interesting to the likes of me though. 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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And there are new languages coming out every day!
Wear your mask! the life you save may be your own.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: If only I could.
(Obligatory Reply):
Do you mean just 'do one language' or do you mean 'do it well'?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Do one language and do it well.
I can do both And both are continual "doing it better" experiences. That never ends, no matter how many years I've done development. Not only because of course the language features evolve.
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Marc Clifton wrote: JS: let s = Foo = `${foo}`;
Or, if you get the quotes in the right place:
let s = `Foo = ${foo}`;
Marc Clifton wrote: C#: braces are on separate lines
JS: opening brace is on the same line.
Actually, in C#, braces can be on the same line, a different line, or whatever you call the abomination of a formatting style that @OriginalGriff prefers. 
JS mostly doesn't care. It's only an issue with things like return { ... };, where putting the opening brace on a new line confuses the parser into thinking it's two statements with a missing semicolon after return.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Aside from the opening brace belonging on the same line as functions, conditionals, &etc., which is a well established and eternal truth, I have a question:
Using javaScript, I have never used 'let' to introduce a symbol declaration. I have used 'var'. Aside from some sort of visual distinction, does it serve any value.
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Yes, variables declared using let[^] and const[^] behave differently to those declared using var. The MDN documentation does a pretty good job of explaining the difference.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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It's all about the scope.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Richard Deeming wrote: Or, if you get the quotes in the right place:
Oops. 
Richard Deeming wrote: Actually, in C#, braces can be on the same line, a different line,
Well yes, but ever since C++ I've used the separate line style.
Richard Deeming wrote: JS mostly doesn't care. It's only an issue with things like return { ... };
I believe
return ({...}); also helps that? I know in some cases I have to put the object {} in parens so as not to confuse JS.
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used to do this all the dang time.
I don't write Javascript anymore unless I have too. hasn't happened in over a year! Yay me.
But I switch between Powershell, SQL, C# etc... I sometimes forget how to comment in the language I am in at the time. It seems strange to me. I can write code quite well switching around. But I cannot remember how to comment in Powershell vs SQL vs C#.
The Brain it is strange.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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rnbergren wrote: I sometimes forget how to comment in the language I am
Most folks I know don't know how to comment in any language; or, if they do know how, they don't use that ability.
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Just like Turn Signals on Cars
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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rnbergren wrote: I sometimes forget how to comment in the language
Comments? What are those and when did that feature get introduced? 
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This is a good post and I feel the same way about it.
Also, don't you _HATE_ the backticks used in JS string interpolation?
C# interpolation is actually nice and clean.
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Marc Clifton wrote: C# vs. JavaScript/Typescript dyslexia
I find this in general. A great number of modern languages use the C/C++-style syntax and so differences can get confusing. Java, Kotlin, Rust, D, etc. all suffer from/contribute to it.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Half the time I wrote the wrong syntax for the wrong language. 
Don't write both.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Marc Clifton wrote: C#: if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(foo))
JS: if (foo)
Those two are not the same. Consider foo = "0";
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I sometimes still type 'Dim i as Long' in C. VB is the computer science equivalent to Saigon.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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It is a mental discipline of learning how to forget. I have only half way mastered it.
So many years of programming I have forgotten more languages than I know.
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