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delinka
"I have no choice but to share it [...] only with people who are worthy."

OK HN, time to put this guy in his place. Who's got enough Rails experience to re-implement this by tonight?

nkohari
Pretty sure it's a joke.
tantalor
Pretty sure delinka was joking.
lucisferre
Sorry Nate didn't mean to down vote you but the UX of HN is terrible :/
dhconnelly
"A better solution than splitting your code into multiple files would be to re-think your code and write it better."

Great advice, or greatest advice?

rurounijones
Before everyone goes nuts: April 1st

The day when looking at any internet news sites is a waste of time.

whateverer
In its defense, it was a piece of very well written and scathing satire.
stcredzero
As a piece, it seems to try hard but unintentionally suggests a shallow understanding of programming languages.
whateverer
How so? I saw it ragging on the current crop of faddish languages and palette-swaps of existing ones (coffeescript, dart, to a lesser extent go), the oddly celebrated amateurishness of current programming language's design, with whatever bit of actual computer science mentioned in passing being pushed aside to make space for the grand vision of language usability held by the author, which usually is ad-hoc to the last three programs written by him/her.
JonnieCache
This is one of the funniest things I've read in ages. As a ruby developer, it hits close to home :)

    notwithstanding
is hilarious, as are the reversible operators.

It's a modern day INTERCAL, although it needs to be expanded before it can compete with INTERCAL's majesty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL

andrewflnr
My favorite:

  ...Lisp showed us the power of lambdas
  but lacked the balls to enforce it everywhere.
ww520
I wonder whether there's a convention over configuration syntax for 4/1.
ORioN63
"If constructs: if, assuming, given, when, supposing, whenever, wherever"

I need this ahaha!

drostie
The great thing about languages with macros (or lazy evaluation) is that you can have it. ;-)
jws
I think the lest keyword would better be used as a special exception block with only a single catch all exception handler.

I hope the user base isn't too large to prevent fixes like this.

tedsuo
Man, why doesn't everything target Fortran?