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You might not agree with me, but then again if you don't, maybe you're just working with regex too much.

And for you savages that don't know your temperaments and think knowing about medical terminology that's been obsolete for over 2000 years is useless,

I made a cheat sheet for you.

Have a nice day, and make sure you don't run out of leeches or you just might end up doing css.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thank you for creating alchemical programming content!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

You're welcome! Was my pleasure. Sorry for the mistake tho D:

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I appreciate the cheat sheet. I think the names of the character natures are misplaced.

  • Phlegm: phlegmatic
  • Yellow bile: choleric
  • Black bile: melancholic

Source

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I screwed up cause 3 AM. Invested a lot of time on it too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

You need to balance them and eat chillis to get good at JS

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This feels like surreal memes before they turned into almost entirely misspellings and other repeat jokes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Well yeah, they were made by crazy people too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

sees the lang above C++

half life 3 real?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

What? C++ is definitely black bile and Cobol is definetly yellow bile.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yellow is melancholy, which is defined as "a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause". This sounds like C++ to me. And I hear cobol is one of the most infuriating programming languages based on sentiment analysis data of stack overflow, so black bile, which is choleric/angry.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's the other way around ... yellow is choleric and black is melancholic

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

f... I can't believe I screwed this up.

edit: the more I think about it, the more choleric it makes me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

puting js an css in the same catagory is vile i mean we dont need both but atleast css cant really do anything

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

CSS can actually do a lot. Many effects that are often done trough JS can also be done with CSS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I mean people who like those just seem like happier ppl to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Rust community might be phlegm but the language itself should be yellow bile, while c++ should be phlegm.

IMO

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Damn i just learned i am distinctly "weak emotions" this is my new oc name do not steal it. Also where the hell is the best of all programming language families, the lisp family?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Won't steal the name, don't worry.

Lisp is right on Yellow Bile.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, even with glasses im blind lol, ty for representing everyone, that yellow bile thing is really damn accurate i just realised, thats litterally all the languages i like there

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

R is definitely black bile

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How did Python end us as Phlegm? It's one of the chillest languages to write, definitely blood

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I screwed up and confused yellow with black as @[email protected] pointed out... Sorry. D: