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| Siwastaja:
--- Quote from: langwadt on February 19, 2022, 04:12:05 pm ---the problem is you can't easily just look at the text and tell the difference and sometimes tab vs. spaces matter. wonder how many hours have been wasted debugging makefiles because a what should have been a tab was spaces --- End quote --- Makefile is a special exception, and make's designers have regretted that particularly stupid choice. I can't figure out any programming language in modern use which suffers the same design fault. But of course, if you use programming languages with significant whitespace, all bets are off anyway. You need to cope. |
| free_electron:
oldest profession in the world : electrician. when god said : "let there be light", those guys had been running cables for weeks... |
| PlainName:
--- Quote ---I can't figure out any programming language in modern use which suffers the same design fault. --- End quote --- I had exactly this (but the other way around) a couple of days ago, but can't recall what with :-// Don't do Python so it wasn't that, and CMake is happy with either. Must've been so bad I burnt that memory out with a hot poker. |
| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: Picuino on February 19, 2022, 01:20:22 pm ---It seems that people's minds are programmed to take sides and we think that it is the only true way of seeing things. --- End quote --- Yes they are. And it's an efficiency issue. If you never took sides, you would keep changing your mind, never settle for anything and ultimately never achieve anything. We *have* to take sides just to be able to function. When it becomes pathological or "religious" is when you take sides on a particular topic that's not in your best interest or otherwise is objectively worse than another option. But in all other cases, that's a necessity. Heck, even when the particular choice you make on a particular topic is not the objectively best one - or is even the worst - it's often better to stick to one rather than constantly changing your mind and not being able to settle for anything. It's a misconception to think that "science" prevents that behavior. It absolutely does not, and for the reason I exposed above. Never taking sides would prevent you from achieving anything. Scientists take sides all the time. The bad ones will refuse to change sides when exposed to new evidence showing that their current "side" is bogus (and history is full of them). But meanwhile, they'll stick to a set of ideas. Just like anyone else. |
| m k:
--- Quote from: snarkysparky on February 19, 2022, 02:45:17 pm ---object oriented programming ? --- End quote --- Yes. My indent is 2 spaces. So in theory it can still be replaced. |
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