• BoofStroke@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Programming languages that use white space to delimit structure are annoying at best. I get annoyed at yaml too, but I’m ok once I have a few templates set up.

    • lhamil64@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      One of these days I’ll actually look up how YAML indentation works. Every time I use it it’s trial and error until I stop getting errors.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I started with Perl. This taught me a certain mindset that works well with Bash and Ruby. I’ve tried to learn Python several times and I just fucking hate it. I gave up when I realized that it just doesn’t work the way that my brain works.

    I wonder if the outcome would have been different if I’d started with Python? How might that have shaped my thinking / reasoning? Fwiw, I was also ok with PHP and SQL, but I don’t know much or anything about the backgrounds on those foundations. Maybe my above statements were completely bullshit.

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      I used to love Perl as it worked the way my brain worked.

      Then I started taking medication for ADHD.

      I haven’t used Perl since except for text parsing, it’s an absolute hot mess of a language (though very powerful and functional at the things it does well)

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        1 year ago

        That’s super interesting.

        I have a mental divergence that isn’t ADHD. I was reviewing stats on it that said people who have it are some percent more likely to have ADHD. I wonder if my previous enjoyment of Perl is because I’m on an ADHD spectrum. It would be interesting to find out.

  • gerryflap@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    People here are taking this way too seriously lol. I love Python, and I never really had any issues with the indentation being used instead of curly braces or something. This is just a silly meme, not a personal attack