On: New programming jargon you coined

[igorgue]

Wrong is what with Yoda conditions?

[pixdamix → igorgue]

Nothing wrong there is. To understand and read them quickly difficult it is.

Subject verb noun, to process, is easier.

[silentbicycle → pixdamix]

For native speakers of English and other Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) languages, anyway; it sounds like a weird variant of passive voice. There are also SOV, VSO, etc. human languages, though.

[protomyth → silentbicycle]

Dakota has some combos that sound different to English speakers (e.g. phrase: "Mazaska wacin", Mazaska = money, wacin = 'I want').

// my choice of example phrase is based on what I valued as a teenager (and can still remember), not some weird social commentary

[hasenj → pixdamix]

Japanese is SOV (subject-object-verb).

I yoda conditions very much hate!! Crazy they me drive!

But I Japanese like.

[silentbicycle → hasenj]

I really dislike post-statement ifs, like "do_something() if condition?". They seem to be used particularly often in Ruby. I don't know how dependent clauses ("if x then y" vs. "y if x") work in Japanese, but Ruby coming from Japan may be a factor.

"if (3 == x)" doesn't bother me so much, I tend to think of it like unification in Prolog.

[prakashk → silentbicycle]

    post-statement ifs, ... used particularly often in Ruby. ... Ruby coming from Japan may be a factor.

I think Ruby borrowed them from Perl's Statement modifiers (http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsyn.html#Statement-Modifiers). I like them and use them when I want the focus to be on the body rather than the conditional.

[hasenj → silentbicycle]

Japanese conditionals come (AFAIK) before statements.

They can come after statements, just like in English, "Tell me if you see him".

I don't use Ruby but I actually like this idea.

Often when reading code, I'm looking for what's being done, not the condition under which it's done. I only look for the condition after I've found the statement.

[mdaniel → silentbicycle]

I got into the habit of writing literals first from being bitten one too many times by the (absolutely insane!) semantic difference between "=" and "==".

In my day job (working with Java) it's less of a problem, but I switch languages so much in my spare time that it has served me well.