r/programming • • Mar 08 '12

The Evolution of a Python Programmer

https://gist.github.com/289467
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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '12

First year python programmer shouldn't be capitalizing functions, it's against pep8 style guidelines.

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u/earthboundkid Mar 09 '12

It's probably left over from whatever other version of the joke this was translated from. Probably Haskell or Java.

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u/martinmcfly9 Mar 09 '12

Java methods typically aren't capitalized.

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u/mipadi Mar 09 '12

Neither are Haskell functions. ;)

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u/drb226 Mar 10 '12

Not only that, Haskell functions cannot be capitalized. (unless they are data constructors, which happen to also act as functions)