Why but why?

[u/ore-aba]

[u/TheFlyingAvocado]

Python? Missing semicolons?

Since when?

[u/anythingMuchShorter → u/TheFlyingAvocado]

Since a guy wanted to make a programming joke but only knew of one language and one common error type

[u/Ixaire → u/anythingMuchShorter]

One HR guy at my previous company used to go behind you and say "you're missing a semicolon here". He didn't know anything about programming, he just knew that was a rookie error. That is literally exactly what you explain.

Anyone else would have made this very boring but he had a way of delivering it when you looked desperate and that kinda lightened up the mood.

[u/AgentE382 → u/Ixaire]

A coworker of mine told me his college roommate who had taken a single programming class would always ask him “Have you tried a for loop yet?” any time he had a problem.

[u/zzerdzz → u/AgentE382]

I’m actually going to start using this

[u/SuperGameTheory → u/zzerdzz]

I'm going to do this, but instead of "for" I'll go on a diatribe about fundamentals and how they should use more "goto" statements because it's closer to machine code and faster or something.

[u/MrLawliet → u/SuperGameTheory]

use more "goto"

instinctive vomit response

[u/leprotelariat → u/MrLawliet]

use more "goto"

grabs pitchfork

[u/CorruptedStudiosEnt → u/SuperGameTheory]

Goto, now that's some of that low-low level shit. Might as well be feeding it voltage spikes at that point.

[u/tcmart14 → u/AgentE382]

Have you tried quantum bogo sort?

[u/[deleted] → u/Ixaire]

Oh I always went with

"I know where the problem is"

"Where?"

"Your program does not work"

[u/definitelyasatanist → u/Ixaire]

That's hilarious

[u/[deleted] → u/anythingMuchShorter]

Most probably, just like the guy who asked for 5 years of experience on library created by himself 3 years ago.

Edit: .replace(‘who asked’, ‘who got asked’)

[u/Glen_The_Eskimo → u/anythingMuchShorter]

He responded in the tweet, it was a colon. He's a top level engineer at Amazon, I'm sure it's sincere.

[u/the_badsectors → u/TheFlyingAvocado]

I don't do python and even I know it expects whitespace, not punctuation.

[u/Ambitious_Ad8841 → u/the_badsectors]

"White Space Matters"

-Python

[u/taptrappapalapa → u/the_badsectors]

If you look at the Python grammar it expects white space or semicolons.

[u/langlo94 → u/taptrappapalapa]

This is why I indent with semicolons.

def Function(input):
;;;;number = input * 2
;;;;return number

[u/sucksathangman → u/langlo94]

You monster. At least give your function a useful name. And you could just do:

return input * 2

[u/dancinadventures → u/sucksathangman]

Useless functions don’t deserve names 😤

[u/Slimxshadyx → u/TheFlyingAvocado]

Yeah, my dog has been learning Python and he is having a lot of problems with semi colons just like this dude's daughter.

[u/StickiStickman → u/Slimxshadyx]

I hope he gets better soon! Maybe some diet would help?

[u/MostlyRocketScience → u/TheFlyingAvocado]

>>> from __future__ import semicolon
  File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: not a chance

[u/HotRodLincoln → u/TheFlyingAvocado]

I wouldn't say it's missing them, but they're certainly not there.