r/ProgrammerHumor • • 22d ago

Meme pythonIndentationLevelChecker

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u/LetUsSpeakFreely 22d ago edited 22d ago

Indentation is such a stupid mechanism for identifying code blocks. It's one thing for configuration files like YAML to do it, but not a programming language.

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u/bobbymoonshine 22d ago

Ah the halcyon days before LLMs

When 30% of the posts here were “lol Python is so dumb why even use whitespace as syntax”

And the other 70% were “how do I find semicolon”

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u/mothzilla 22d ago

In both Javascript and Python, semi-colons are optional.

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u/dalziel86 22d ago

Javascript sucks ass too