TFW JavaScript developers
Python developer: LOL. LMAO
as a fellow Python user, I fucking hate significant whitespace. Also YAML. WTF they where thinking
There were plenty of blanks in their thoughts.
You could even say they had plenty of space in their heads.
I will take YAML’s string blocks where I don’t have to escape special characters over JSON any day.
It’s to make students actually format their code correctly
They are alright, yaml problems are overblown, significant whitespace as well.
Whitespaces are not problem at all. But YAML values parsing rules, uh boy…
There is
pyyaml, probably other libraries, that take the pain away.
Significant whitespace is the best! I don’t understand why so many people have issues with it.
I don’t really have a solution for the whitespace issue, but you could always switch to TOML
Fussy.
DWIM
Python is the jazz of programming languages. It’s about the characters you don’t type.
It is a semicolon; we barely use it.
Incorrect, that’s a Greek question mark
Before IDEs were smart it was a great prank
My senior highschool English teacher (a somewhat precocious PHD student), assigned us basically the opposite of code golf; make the longest grammatically correct sentence you can (with some rules that basically amounted to ‘do not be boring/repetitive’). The use of semicolons was encouraged.
I mean, have you seen ML with Python. It doesn’t have semicolons.
“If you can replace a semicolon or hyphen with a comma/period, you probably should”. Writing advice I received at age ~10 and it never stopped being relevant in literature contexts
Far too many writers use a comma, when they should have used a semicolon or perion. It creates comma splices, where you join two main clauses with a comma.
Wrong:
His new car was flashy, it was bright red and had a custom license plate.
Right:
His new car was flashy. It was bright red and had a custom license plate.
It is a Semicolon
I use semi-colons in English all the time; they’re fun.
I wore out that key on my computer. Betweeen IRC and Java, it didn’t last long.
That grammar begs to be read in a Russian accent
It’s the sniff between cocaine rants
Lisp devs don’t understand this
Lisp devs go out of their way to pretend they’re not dealing with lisp
... ( isthatso? chump muffin ))))))))))))))))))))))))))) ;; function ended 10 brackets agoI fucking hatte Lisp for its excessive use of brackets. Fuck the Person who thought that you only need one type of bracket and then have shove absolutely fucking everything into it.
Lisps are hardly my favorite languages, but the whole point of s-expressions is that it is a uniform syntax, which makes metaprogramming much, much easier. Metaprogramming is kind of the whole thing of lisps.
Yeah I know, but I have no clue about that kind of stuff, simply because I hate that language so god damn much so that I never cared enough to actually learn it a single inch more than it was needed, so that I could copy paste code from StackOverflow into my Emacs config.
it’s good someone has invented use for that key.
technically its called a winkie eye
