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Also, do y'all call main() in the if block or do you just put the code you want to run in the if block?

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Everyone's welcome to their opinion of course, but I find Python more readable than anything else and I resent the visual clutter required to make intentions plain in other languages. Feels like having a conversation where people say the words "comma", "period", etc.

I also spend more time with Python than anything else and I suspect these two facts about me relate, lol

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Someone should get their hands on someone like me and someone like you and study their brains. I spend most time with PHP and C++, and Python looks like an attempt to write code like prose literature. Very interesting how much of this is habbit, as it can't be just that: reading prose and poetry in English/Russian/Japanese never produced this kind of resentment

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I would love that! I do think there are probably interesting underlying personality factors / preferences for a lot of this stuff as well.

I do think that many of Python's characteristics map to my own personality and I bet there's something to that. Things like syntax of course, but not strictly syntax, also things like "The Zen of Python", and the way its a "jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none". I also really kind of need the freedom and accompanying responsibility to break any "rules" on a whim (Python will happily let you overwrite its own internals while running, for instance), but I almost never do anything that uses it...

I could probably keep going lol. Feels like a "people looking like their pets" scenario, lmao

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thank you for sharing your thoughts :)

Python will happily let you overwrite its own internals while running, for instance

Damn, that's cool and I did not even know. Pretty sure I would not do this in production code, but very glad very this possibility exists

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