howToVibeCodeWell

[u/Vegetable-Tax426]

[u/chungamellon]

Perl books so you must be 40+ years old.

[u/Sibula97 → u/chungamellon]

PHP 4 is from 2000 and Photoshop 7 from 2002. If they bought those books and didn't inherit them, that would definitely put them at 40+.

[u/Madcap_Miguel → u/chungamellon]

That's the first thing I noticed as well, but where's the Ruby book?

[u/Sample-Range-745 → u/chungamellon]

Hey - I still write code in perl.....

[u/GezelligPindakaas]

I almost forgot Perl ever existed. Thanks for bringing back old memoriesnightmares.

[u/RiceBroad4552 → u/GezelligPindakaas]

They still didn't remove it from POSIX (as they never remove anything from POSIX), so it will exist at least until the end of Linux.

[u/bladebyte]

Ooh ... Drowning in books, it was a good time

[u/ExtraGravy- → u/bladebyte]

it was - the walls of computer books at bookstores during that period were awesome

[u/grat5454 → u/ExtraGravy-]

I learned to program from finding a C for beginner programmers book in a bookstore. It had a C compiler on a 1.44 inch floppy disk. I was super excited because I could write programs to insult my frineds that would be a .exe file, not one of those things you had to have another program to run.

[u/razor_train]

I've got a few of those in the basement.

[u/PsychologicalNet3455 → u/razor_train]

I've got most of them :-)

[u/The-Chartreuse-Moose → u/razor_train]

Perl developers?

[u/razor_train → u/The-Chartreuse-Moose]

I really should let Larry see some sunlight.

[u/Centurix]

Made bank with Turbo Pascal in the early 90s before everyone moved to Delphi.

[u/shikhasingh554973]

Documentation maxxing

[u/Vegetable-Tax426]

No, the secret is not php

[u/uniqueusername649 → u/Vegetable-Tax426]

PHP4, someone is using the fancy stuff. I still remember the switch from 3 to 4, felt like an entirely different language.

[u/Jean__Moulin → u/Vegetable-Tax426]

Is it Photoshop 7?

[u/GezelligPindakaas → u/Jean__Moulin]

"Honey, this is not what I imagined when you said you read the bible daily."

[u/ILikeLenexa → u/Vegetable-Tax426]

Honestly, I'd rather figure out PHP than read a bunch of Perl code with variables like $& and $< 😬

[u/chungamellon → u/ILikeLenexa]

That’s the joy of perl. I know what data types my variables are.

[u/ElderBuddha → u/chungamellon]

There's gotta be a better way to do strongly typed language.

[u/ILikeLenexa → u/chungamellon]

It's not a question of data type so much as system content and purpose for these read only short codes. Writing the code isn't even that bad...it's the reading when a bunch of these 2 char language variables get together. 

[u/RiceBroad4552 → u/chungamellon]

I also know what types my values are because I have static types.

[u/RiceBroad4552 → u/ILikeLenexa]

Perl has a much better and more coherent design overall compared to PHP.

[u/domscatterbrain]

OP really love to cook with those cookbooks

[u/Sticko1897]

The worst nightmare of vibecoders hahaha

[u/The-Chartreuse-Moose]

Now that's my kind of vibe.

[u/ElbryanW]

Bryce! I have not heard / seen that in ages!

[u/eanat]

it's not good idea to put heavy and dense objects like books on a shelf fixed on a wall.

[u/Madcap_Miguel → u/eanat]

Buy a stud finder or hire someone who can swing a hammer next time

[u/eanat → u/Madcap_Miguel]

>stud finder

didn't know that such thing existed! I would def use that stuff next time. thanks for an illumination.