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What's the dumbest reason you've learned a programming language? (programming.dev)
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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You can use types in Python and your tools will generate warnings

def something(a: int) -> int: return "potato"

will turn yellow in an IDE more advanced that notepad.

Most editors will also show a red line where the indentation is wrong.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Most editors

    Same thing still applies - you need to get it past the school admin gatekeeper.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you're writing any language in like notepad, you're going to have a bad time. I accept your point that school administration may be making questionable choices about what software is installed, but that's not a problem unique to python.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    that’s not a problem unique to python

    No, but it's a bigger problem for C# than is is for Python (though this is changing now), so all the U.K.-based schools were teaching Python, rather than the more-appropriate C#. That was my original point - that's the dumb reason I had to learn Python, school admin's wanted the lower overhead of the worse language.

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