UPDATE: My supervisor approached me to ask if I knew a way to make their automatically generated PDF reports not look like ass...and well... I do happen to know of this little tool called...

seism0saurus

Regex. You can do almost anything by piping stuff through awk, sed and regex in a way, that you need weeks to understand ever again.

Astra Underscore

@seism0saurus Horrifying! I'm taking notes!

the thing

@astra_underscore@wetdry.world the closest you can get is wsl

Christian Berger DECT 2763

@astra_underscore
regexroute: It's the real programming language used for configuring the yate telephony engine. Every statement starts with a regex, and if it matches the part after the equals sign will be executed.
Now this may seem reasonable, but there's essentially no documentation about it, not even on how one should escape the regular expression.

Astra Underscore

@casandro oh crap, now I NEED some way to shoehorn this into the software stack holy shit

Christian Berger DECT 2763

@astra_underscore

https://docs.yate.ro/wiki/Regular_expressions

Dr. Sobek

@astra_underscore LaTeX is awesome.

And at the same time, it is not an unreasonable thing for people to pick up, if they need it.

And the next dev might still have some knowledge.

Coffee (Team CW)

@astra_underscore I can give you a solid recommendation for Perl 5 from personal experience. Be sure to use the special characters a lot and liberally mix using variables in list context and scalar context.

Om the other hand, if you want (to be able) to leave the company, and *stay* away, maybe pick something else so as to avoid getting kidnapped. And should the latter happen, pray that *you* still remember how the heck the thing works.

Astra Underscore

@Coffee I don't intend to stay, I'm an intern lmao

Astra Underscore

@casandro You know, I think I had heard of this at some point, but my brain had suppressed the memory

Bubu :progress_pride: @ FOSDEM

@astra_underscore Some strategically deployed Smalltalk VMs would be nice, I think?

Or for a (far) more obscure language in a similar direction, chose Self maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_(programming_language)

Christian Berger DECT 2763

@astra_underscore It is fairly rare since yate is only used in telephony and related areas. Plus yate allows for some interfaces to other programming languages allowing you to write your logic in those, too.

Astra Underscore

@Bubu I wish I had thought of that myself. I can only imagine the horror in the face of the next poor sod who has to maintain the project when he realizes that there are Smalltalk VMs hiding like booby traps all throughout the stack of what's supposedly is a Python and JS stack

I'm saving this idea. It's a sophisticated idea for a more civilized age...

Bubu :progress_pride: @ FOSDEM

@astra_underscore We had a lot of smalltalk at university, I actually really like the language and it's concepts. But I don't think that sentiment is shared by too many people .

Astra Underscore

@Bubu I really like ST too, but I think you could kill some devs by having them use it x)

Bubu :progress_pride: @ FOSDEM

@astra_underscore We had Dan Ingalls visiting our university/our professor at some point and he gave a presentation about the history of smalltalk. The presentation was obviously prepared and presented in Squeak Smalltalk.

It's been a while, but good memories.

LisPi

@astra_underscore Clasp Common Lisp, now with bindings to COM I guess.

Cosmo

@astra_underscore@wetdry.world Too many cursed things to easily pick one.
Well done!

Luci ☯⚛

@astra_underscore Typst It's like LaTeX but I personally find it more readable

Edit: Oh, wait, you wanted cursed things oops

Sigma

@astra_underscore@wetdry.world I voted Forth, but honestly I'd probably go for a custom DSL. ^^ I recently heard a story about someone who built a custom setup for deployment automation that used git branches to determine which action to execute next.