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those days are largely over for a few major langauges
Hear me out, but whatever lunatics at python decided that brackets and semicolons are unnecessary, have made a catastrophic mistake with it. I start using another editor that uses different amount of spaces for tabs and suddenly my code no longer runs. Its also absolutely horrible when you chase down a bug for an hour just to realise, that one additional/missing tab changed the scope of your code and broke your entire script.
4 spaces is best and everyone else is wrong IMO
python, haskell, lua, typescript, babel, shell (newline), I dunno what else nowadays - the compiler will insert them need be
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As a literary nerd, I use it a lot in my writing.
it’s good someone has invented use for that key.
technically its called a winkie eye
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I hate the stupid semi colon. Why do I need to add it to the end of a line? Why is python smart enough not to need it but other languages still havent fixed it.
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