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Evil pal lost direction so I shot him to start with! (8)
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Fiendish - remove the r from friend and add the first letters of I shot him
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
modified 5-Nov-21 5:46am.
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And you are up Monday!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Nice little clue
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I liked it!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I thought that lost direction meant to drop one of NSEW, which would turn friend into fried. 
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What, "Right" and "Left" aren't directions now? 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Along with Abeam, Backwards, Clockwise, Down, East, .... ?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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and hubwards, rimwards, turnwise and widdershins.
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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It does but l and r also qualify
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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The author of python got his wish.
I have very carefully formatted ASP-like templates combined with an IndentedTextWriter to make sure all of my generated output is formatted precisely.
It was a lot of work. I did it because of Python. I don't target it just yet, but I plan to. Heck, I don't know Python well enough to write it, only to basically read it (kind of like my Spanish) but I'll pick it up as I go.
Still it was that bloody significant whitespace that made me put in the work.
So when Norm and Reggie spit out beautiful code, thank Python.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I quite like Python for certain things, particularly SBC development and working with the I/O stuff.
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I refuse to write in it directly on account of its use of significant whitespace, other than line breaks which is bad enough (*sideeyes VB*) but I don't mind writing generators that target it for generated code output.
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Doesn't VB allow multiple statements on a "line" ? 
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It might, and it theoretically at least allows one statement to span multiple lines but doing so is messy.
It's better than the situation with Python which is why I'll still grudgingly use it if the need arises (thankfully it really hasn't).
Real programmers use butterflies
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Putting an _ (underscore) at the end of the line is messy? The flip side of this is you don't need semi-colons to terminate statements.
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And we know that it's much too much trouble to type a semicolon. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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The underscore requires two keypresses, while a semicolon takes one (on most keyboards). Factor in the notion in C-style languages that there are fewer statements than lines, and therefore semicolons win.
(just stirring the pot here )
Software Zen: delete this;
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Well, you can always fake it: Python Humor | Python.org[^] It's really just one extra character at the start and end of a {} block! 
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I quite like it, and any decent editor* will manage the indentation for you.
*In fact VSCode does it even without the Python extension installed.
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I'm targeting it for code generation tools, and it creates interesting problems.
I just now found out that it has a maximum line length as well. I think I can manage that but I may have to build my WordWrappingTextWriter after all. Plus that gets weird because Python uses continuation syntax for that - parentheses and then something else in another case.
Anyway, targeting Python isn't for the faint of heart because of this.
I stand by my issues with it, even if it is making my generated code beautifully formatted.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I think the problem for those of us used to C type languages is just getting our heads round the use of indentation rather than braces and semi-colons. Once your brain accepts that it does get easier. And TBH it is a rather useful system for many tasks. I have played with a number of the third-party libraries and you can do some really cool stuff without too much difficulty.
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Nah. I have technical problems with it.
1. I can *see* the delimiters in my source.
2. Editors don't munge hard delimiters like they do whitespace (converting spaces to tabs and vice versa for example
3. Transport protocols and different encodings won't generally mess with hard delimiters. Going from unicode whitespace like non-breaking spaces to something non-unicode gets weird fast.
The bottom line is there is no hard guarantee that the whitespace I put in is the whitespace that will come out on the end and no easy visual way to check it.
I ran into a similar problem just the other day with MS's sql parser.
Real programmers use butterflies
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... I'm not sure what's more critical:
a.) Greta Thunberg
b.) Climate
c.) Corona
modified 3-Dec-21 21:01pm.
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Coffee, bacon, and alcohol.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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