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I wrote 20 short programs in Python yesterday. It was wonderful. Perl, I’m leaving you.

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[A Cueball-like friend is talking to Cueball, who is floating in the sky.]
Friend: You’re flying! How?
Cueball: Python!
Cueball: I learned it last night! Everything is so simple!
Cueball: Hello world is just print “Hello, World!”
Friend: I dunno… Dynamic typing? Whitespace?
Cueball: Come join us! Programming is fun again! It’s a whole new world up here!
Friend: But how are you flying?
Cueball: I just typed ‘import antigravity’
Friend: That’s it?
Cueball: …I also sampled everything in the medicine cabinet for comparison.
Cueball: But I think this is the python.

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Just wait until you accidently have something unindented that wasn’t supposed to be. Those are fun bugs to troubleshoot

    • RedSeries@lemmy.world
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      Just wait until you accidently have something unindented that wasn’t supposed to be forget one semicolon. Those are fun bugs to troubleshoot

      FTFY.

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        That will cause a compilation error 99.999% of the time and point you to the exact location where the problem is.

        • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          10 months ago

          Back when I regularly used Java for Minecraft mods n shit id get shit like

          missing expected ; at line 68

          Then I’d go to line 68 in the editor and it and the 5 on either side of it are allllllll blank. Wonderfully helpful!

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          Well, which of these lines causes a compilation error?

          String foo = "Nothing";
          foo += "to see";
          foo += "here";
          
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          The last one. It’s not a semicolon but a Greek question mark

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            Compilation error (line 3, col 18): ; expected
            Compilation error (line 3, col 18): Unexpected character ';'
            

            edit: fuck that formatting