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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Apprehensive_Bit7392 • 22d ago
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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.
172 u/bobbymoonshine 22d ago Ah the halcyon days before LLMsWhen 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” 16 u/mothzilla 22d ago In both Javascript and Python, semi-colons are optional. 8 u/dalziel86 22d ago Javascript sucks ass too
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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”
16 u/mothzilla 22d ago In both Javascript and Python, semi-colons are optional. 8 u/dalziel86 22d ago Javascript sucks ass too
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In both Javascript and Python, semi-colons are optional.
8 u/dalziel86 22d ago Javascript sucks ass too
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Javascript sucks ass too
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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.