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You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands (infosec.pub)
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[–] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 20 points 1 day ago (24 children)

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

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 day ago (12 children)

You can use spaces in Python.

[–] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 day ago (8 children)

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

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 9 points 1 day 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.

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