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You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 12 hours ago by flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] 30p87@feddit.org 23 points 11 hours ago

Almost any language is OK, but Rust is just so, so fucking ugly

[-] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 18 points 11 hours ago

FORTRAN isn't a beauty either.
And Python is strange as hell with its mandatory tabs.

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 17 points 11 hours ago

You can use spaces in Python.

[-] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 11 hours ago

Two, three or four spaces? If you answer wrong I'll never forgive you

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 6 hours ago

Per the Linux kernel coding style:

Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters. There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!) characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to be 3.

[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 hours ago

First off, I’d suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards, and NOT read it. Burn them, it’s a great symbolic gesture.

[-] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 11 points 10 hours ago

Whatever your place defines as a standard. I’ve seen ugly code in C, JavaScript, Java, etc., that uses them all over the place because they’re not mandatory.

If you don’t have consistent indenting, your code looks like copy/paste from several sources; but if you do have consistent indenting, then the indenting of Python is a non-issue.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 15 points 11 hours ago

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

Yes

[-] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

I’m rather partial to five myself but only when I’m feeling fancy.

[-] firelizzard@programming.dev 9 points 9 hours ago

Indentation-driven control flow is one of the most cursed things ever invented, excluding things explicitly designed to inflict pain or death.

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago

Haskell has the choice of both indentation based and brackets for things like do blocks, but most people use indentation based cause it's the norm and looks cleaner