The nightmare of programming in any language with braces is you keep thinking >
-
-
Replying to @Meaningness @The_Lagrangian
“it’s turing-complete, I have to be able to make it do what I want” >
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @Meaningness @The_Lagrangian
> but it cleverly manages to defeat you with weird special-case gotchas in which it not only does the wrong thing, it >
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @Meaningness @The_Lagrangian
> makes all workarounds impossible.
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness @The_Lagrangian
Whoa, just discovered that python doesn’t have braces. Never mind! duncehat.gif
2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @Meaningness @The_Lagrangian
what does syntax have to do with it?
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @bitemyapp @The_Lagrangian
Just lisp programmer’s prejudice (proven incorrect in this case) that languages with braces are all messes.
2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Python is much worse than braces, uses indentation for scoping. Insane yet taking over the world.
3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
-
Replying to @Meaningness
Ruby may be in for web apps (less so recently?), but Python seems to be the default language for general computing these days.
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.