• MooseTheDog@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Welcome to java, we have a couple unconventional ways of doing things, but overall I’m like every other mainstream oo language.

    People: AHH! Scary!

    Welcome to python. your knowledge of me wont help you elsewhere as my syntax is purposefully obtuse and unique. Forget about semicolons, one missed space and your code is as worthless as you after learning this language.

    People: Hello based department

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      9 days ago

      Oh my god I got fucked by a python script once because of a single space. It took forever to figure out what went wrong

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        8 days ago

        I refuse to code in Python without a really good IDE and linting like PyCharm. When using PyCharm it’s very rare I have issues like this, because it catches them in one way or another, but I notice it catches those kinds of issues a lot when I’m coding soooooooo…

        I have also setup the IDE to specifically color code comments like

        ’ # End If and ’ # Next

        in the same style as their beginning statements as I find it much easier to visually scam through code when they are present.

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      9 days ago

      Python has its drawbacks but it also has a pretty useful standard library so as a language for small scripts, one can do much worse