Code to Joy

It’s another language. I have absolutely no idea what these people are on about. It may as well be Latin or Juaneño (an extinct Uzo-Aztecan language apparently) or god forbid Singlish.

Trying to put this website / blog / thing together should have been a fairly painless experience. Not so much. Even using WordPress which is allegedly “Setting up a Site for Turnip-like Vegetables” proved to be an interesting way to spend a weekend.

That whole “code” palaver makes your head hurt. I can see why our English and German friends in the 40’s needed machines to come up with it and then proceeded to blow each other up.

I give you:

// Remove the task from the UI $(“#task_<%= @task.id %>”).slideUp(“slow”, function() { // Reload the tasks $(“#tasks”).html(“<%= escape_javascript(render(:partial => ‘tasks/tasks’))%>”);

Yeah, good. I’d remove the task from the UI if I knew what my task is and what the hell a UI is.

Do I need tongs? An oven mitt?

That reminds me of the dreaded high school maths classes, when I used to go into a “zero to the zero power” trance with a bit of drool escaping from the left side of my mouth.
Thanks for all that vectors, surds, calculus, algebra and trigonometry pleasure, you wacky funsters. You don’t know how often I need to calculate the fourth square root of something and I love having a robust chat about the angles of cyclic quadrilaterals over a nice Merlot.
So hats and pants off to internet code devotees and maths teachers. (But maybe enough of the short sleeve shirts with pens in your top pocket).

©Steve Williams 2012

*I used the keyword “code” in a search on a free stock photo site. This was the result: Obviously.

Eirik Newth