Comments on: How the fuck is trim in Python?

By: Chucho

Chucho — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:32:58 +0000

This already exists. PHP to Ruby. I can see Web developers searching for equivalents in Ruby, but Python, I don't think so. Maybe Sys Admins, if they are not already using it as a scripting tool.

By: Pinderkent

Pinderkent — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:13:10 +0000

Mapping concepts from one programming language to another….

I read through an article today that suggested an idea for a Web site where a user can specify a task in a programming language they know, and the site tells them how to perform it in some other language.
This is an interesting idea, and no doubt co…

By: inerte

inerte — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:30:18 +0000

Heh, one of my previous posts (in portuguese) talks about how ideas are useless in business, what really counts are the processes and the implementation. Most likely any idea will morph several times before reaching a level that its users will enjoy.

On the other hand, rapid iteration and prototyping is really easy on the web. The seed is there, a simple tool telling you how to do something on a programming language based on what you know from another programming language.

I've said to Lucas (in a comment below) why I am not going to implement this website. I am not just “feeling lazy”, but I have a couple projects that I am devoting my energy. Curiously, they're being written in Python. I had the HTFITIP idea a couple months ago, but never got around about getting serious to launch because I _think_ I am currently envolved in stuff more cool.

I might be wrong, and HTFITIP could be a huge success (as huge as something cattered to newbie programming language polyglots can be), but it's not that I don't believe in its chances. It's that when I open the text editor I feel more motivated in working on these other two projects

By: Alin Hanghiuc

Alin Hanghiuc — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:20:08 +0000

On second thought, the “What the fuck is trim in Python” name already has a couple of twists (it's an abbreviation of a cool name), so maybe there's no need for a mistake in it. And you could replace the profanity, “fuck”, with a “semi-profanity”, “frack”, which should become cool now that Battlestar Galactica ends and enters history. Unless the Caprica spinoff actually happens, in which case the coolness of “frack” will be delayed a few years. Unless Caprica sucks, in which case “frack” will never be cool. But I digress…

Anyway, this reminds me of an old Romanian saying that goes something like this: Alright! We've got a horseshoe (the idea for the site, and a cool name for it). All we need is three more horseshoes, a wagon and a horse (the actual website, the users and the content)!

By: Alin Hanghiuc

Alin Hanghiuc — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:47:06 +0000

I think the following is better:

“What, in the name of God, is the equivalent of PHP's trim function in Python?!”

I think the idea of a site like this is truly awesome. The name is even “awesomer”, even if it's not correctly written since a good site needs a name with a twist.

By: Dat Chu

Dat Chu — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:27:30 +0000

Apparently you have not seen Matlab function list.

By: inerte

inerte — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:50:36 +0000

Ae Lucas, bom ver outro brasileiro lá também.

Manda bala rapaz. Sinceramente eu acho que daria um belo site, e a implementação não é difícil, nada de grandioso Vai ser simples e útil.

Eu só não faço mesmo pois, não é bem preguiça, mas estou já com projetos paralelos o suficiente para me manter ocupado por muito tempo Fazer o sistema em si é até divertido, agora ficar atualizando com as funções é um pé no saco. Eu já tenho um tanto de sites que tenho de ficar atualizando, não queria mais um!

Se/quando você fizer, avisa que eu dou uma olhada.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:32:56 +0000

Às vezes parece que sou o único brasileiro que usa o HN bom ver que não sou…

Aliás, boa idéia. Eu nunca fiz nada muito grandioso, acho que vou tentar fazer uma implementação disso aí!

By: inerte

inerte — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:02:04 +0000

Thanks yo (and Dave).

10 years of almost daily english usage and I am still learning :p

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:55:49 +0000

“How the fuck” should be “What the fuck”.

Really it should just be “What”.