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You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 7 months ago by flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] 30p87@feddit.org 29 points 7 months ago (116 children)

Almost any language is OK, but Rust is just so, so fucking ugly

[–] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 22 points 7 months ago (24 children)

FORTRAN isn't a beauty either.
And Python is strange as hell with its mandatory tabs.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 21 points 7 months ago (12 children)

You can use spaces in Python.

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Indentation-driven control flow is one of the most cursed things ever invented, excluding things explicitly designed to inflict pain or death.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 7 months ago

White space sensitive languages are evil.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 5 points 7 months ago

Haskell has the choice of both indentation based and brackets for things like do blocks, but most people use indentation based cause it's the norm and looks cleaner

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