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

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[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.

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
    224·
    10 months ago

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

    • RedSeries@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      10 months ago

      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
        132·
        10 months ago

        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.comEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          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
            61·
            10 months ago

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

        • elvith@feddit.de
          24·
          10 months ago

          Well, which of these lines causes a compilation error?

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

          The last one. It’s not a semicolon but a Greek question mark…

          • _cnt0
            6·
            10 months ago
            Compilation error (line 3, col 18): ; expected
Compilation error (line 3, col 18): Unexpected character ';'

            edit: fuck that formatting

      • ysjet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        10 months ago

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

  • DoomBot5@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    10 months ago

    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.