[xkcd] Python (5 Dec 2007)

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

:::spoiler Transcript

[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. :::

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13 Comments

NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y (10 replies)

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

RedSeries@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Just wait until you accidently ~~have something unindented that wasn't supposed to be~~ forget one semicolon. Those are fun bugs to troubleshoot

FTFY.

_cnt0@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 2y (4 replies)

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 · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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!

Scubus@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y

Well there's your problem, they're blank when they should be ;

elvith@feddit.de · -2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Well, which of these lines causes a compilation error?

String foo = "Nothing";
foo += "to see";
foo += "here";

::: spoiler Spoiler The last one. It's not a semicolon but a Greek question mark... :::

_cnt0@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2y

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

edit: fuck that formatting

Doorbook@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Wouldn't IDE ensure these things are looked after?

ysjet@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Yes, but people feel threatened by good programming languages instead of just learning them.

johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

There aren't good languages and bad languages, there are better tools for a particular job and worse.

YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y

Javascript is widely regarded as a bad programming language even though for many use cases it is the best tool for the job.

DoomBot5@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

If you try out the import antigravity in this comic, you'll be linked back to the comic. XKCD is built into the language itself.

mot@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Open a Python REPL and type:

import antigravity

;)

bob_lemon@feddit.de · 1 pts · 2y

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