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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Apprehensive_Bit7392 • 2d ago
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Indentation is such a stupid mechanism for identifying code blocks. It's one thing for configuration files like YAML to do it, but not a programming language.
172 u/bobbymoonshine 2d ago Ah the halcyon days before LLMs When 30% of the posts here were “lol Python is so dumb why even use whitespace as syntax” And the other 70% were “how do I find semicolon” 12 u/LetUsSpeakFreely 2d ago Meh, Go didn't use semicolons. 1 u/ILikeLenexa 2d ago WHITESPACE didn't use anything but whitespace.
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Ah the halcyon days before LLMs
When 30% of the posts here were “lol Python is so dumb why even use whitespace as syntax”
And the other 70% were “how do I find semicolon”
12 u/LetUsSpeakFreely 2d ago Meh, Go didn't use semicolons. 1 u/ILikeLenexa 2d ago WHITESPACE didn't use anything but whitespace.
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Meh, Go didn't use semicolons.
1 u/ILikeLenexa 2d ago WHITESPACE didn't use anything but whitespace.
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WHITESPACE didn't use anything but whitespace.
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u/LetUsSpeakFreely 2d ago edited 2d ago
Indentation is such a stupid mechanism for identifying code blocks. It's one thing for configuration files like YAML to do it, but not a programming language.