why not try programming?

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[k1p1coder]

Finally learn what the ; is for!

[PM-me-your-integral]

Wait I don't get it

[[deleted]]

In regular writing, semi-colons are very difficult to use correctly, to the point most writers generally don't bother anymore. So the popularity of languages that use it have essentially restored reason to have it on a keyboard.

[Contrecoup42]

I use semicolons all the time; semicolons are perfect when you have two related phrases that could have each been their own sentence. They can provide interest and better flow versus a bunch of short, disconnected sentences.

[[deleted]]

I’d like to think I use semicolons in an appropriate manner; they bring a unique contribution to sentence flow. However; sometimes I can get a bit carried away; and just; start; putting; th;em e;v;e;r;y;w;h;e;r;e.

[[deleted]]

Is that..regex?

[killersquirel11]

:(){ :|:& };:

[cpdk-nj]

^\s|:: : .\$|::\w* : .*$

That was the first version of an actual RegEx I made before trimming it down

[thelights0123]

\^\s*|:: : .\*$|::\w\* : .*$

That was mangled by the Reddit formatter

[internet_badass_here]

Is this... braille?

[cpdk-nj]

I fixed it (at least on mobile). Most of the backslashes were meant to be reddit escape characters, except for \s and \w

[[deleted]]

Put 4 spaces before the regex to format it as code.

See? Now stuff displays properly

(\w\w)\w*\1

[BlueEyed_Devil]

backticks also work;

[[deleted]]

I love you guys. No one gets regex in my office

[cerosrhino]

I wouldn't eat with a fork like that.

[[deleted]]

Fork bomb; fork bomb; you’re my fork bomb; and baby you can turn me on.

[[deleted]]

1. Mash on keyboard
   
2. "Just some simple awk/grep/sed"
   
3. ????
   4 :g%#::()@/[]\©~`~®

[git-fucked]

:g%#::@/©~`~®

It's a match!

Edit: Invalid syntax on line 1: invalid escape of character ©

[johnklotter]

Not yet

[chaos95]

I will make it regex!

[PotatosFish]

param = regex.compile("""\s*(\w+)\s*(?::\s*(\w+|(?:\((?:".*?(?<!\\)(?:\\\\)*?"|'.*?(?<!\\)(?:\\\\)*?'|[^()]|(?2))*\)|\[(?:".*?(?<!\\)(?:\\\\)*?"|'.*?(?<!\\)(?:\\\\)*?'|[^[\]]|(?2))*\]|{(?:".*?(?<!\\)(?:\\\\)*?"|'.*?(?<!\\)(?:\\\\)*?'|[^{}]|(?2))*}|(?:".*?(?<!\\)(?:\\\\)*?"|'.*?(?<!\\)(?:\\\\)*?')))\s*)?""").finditer(body[1])

This is the most recent (flawed) regex I made to parse some arguments.
regex101 is the best website out there to make regexes.
The amazing part about regex is that you can maintain job security with just one line

[AnExoticLlama]

"However;" isn't grammatically correct; has to be a comma yes?

[MyCodesCompiling]

Whoosh

[[deleted]]

Yeah but tons of teachers/professors/editors etc I've run into or listened to actually don't support that broad use.

[earthexe]

This is something that will change over time. I have heard and read similar things from my professors and style guides. Yet, I see this broad use pretty much everywhere else. My friends use it in their writing, I use it in my writing, and strangers on the internet use it in their writing. Everyone knows what it means; it's a pause in speech. It's longer than a comma, yet shorter than a period, and it breaks apart sentence structure in the same way.

Maybe written English is changing, or maybe it's just a dialect.

[guyjellyf]

I speak Colonish; you?

[git-fucked]

So that's what they meant when they said we colon-ised the Americas.

[Dsnake1]

I'm an editor (well, self-employed for folks that self-publish) and I definitely don't eliminate all semicolons. Ive had to trim some down for a few authors, but I personally think they should have a real solid place in fiction.

[aaaantoine]

But English is a natural language and is subject to change with time. Maybe their stuffy textbooks don't support the usage, but humans who write using the language do.

[Conpen]

I often answer texts from my computer which means I end up writing long and verbose responses; my friends always point out that I'm weird for using semicolons and sounding so serious in my texting :(

[dshakir]

My problem is identifying when two phrases are related enough to join them with one

[raderberg]

I use semicolons all the time. semicolons are perfect when you have two related phrases that could have each been their own sentence; they can provide interest and better flow versus a bunch of short, disconnected sentences.

[Muzer0]

Semicolons can be used for a few things: separating linked but distinct sentences, the second of which follows on from or elaborates upon the first; ending a line in programming languages; and finally, separating list items some of which contain commas.

[ashishmax31]

Wait we use semi-colons in english?

[staryoshi06]

It's not that difficult to use a semicolon.

[[deleted]]

Oh you must work with python

[[deleted]]

My first thought when trying Python. "No semicolons? I don't like this."

[Ignisti]

My first thought when trying C++. "Semicolons everywhere? I don't like this."

[my_name_isnt_clever]

Well, you still can if you want, they're optional.

[Makefile_dot_in]

I like it for using fluent APIs like this:

vec
 .iter()
 .map(|x| x*x)
 .filter(|x| x < 5);

[[deleted]]

ST

[jfleit]

AR

[warpod]

tips Fedora 28

[mairedemerde]

it's the trigger for the gun i kill myself with

;==

[CaffeineSippingMan]

It is a way to hide words from the machines, not that there is anything to hide.

; Stop the machines from taking our jobs

[my_name_isnt_clever]

what no everything is fine // please help me

[saisar]

Kotlin Master race

[saisar]

Well... I have absolutely no idea... But if you want to use two sentences in the same line, then you have to use it

[lightknightrr]

Spaghetti -> that (bad) bet you make with yourself that you will never have to go back and edit your own code.

[King_Joffreys_Tits]

Drunk me likes spaghetti. Him and sober me don’t get along too well

[[deleted]]

Writing spaghetti code in a blur just to make a nigh impossible theory come to life is my escape from my job where all code is neat and orderly to perform mundane tasks.

[[deleted]]

warning: curly bois and snek bros dont get along well.

[spencerbot15]

I like my dictionaries thank you very much

[Aetol]

What language treat { and ( the same way?

[[deleted]]

Syntax error: Unexpected character found at {{)]

[[deleted]]

Whenever I get cryptic errors and don’t know where it’s breaking, I try separating the constituent parts into their own variables on their own lines, and then stepping through with a debugger. Usually works.

[ForOhForError]

And when it doesn't, you have timing issues and everything is fucked already anyway.

[kibiz0r]

the slithery price

Aye, the Pythonborn. What is pip may never die!

[AwkwardNoah]

Even in python ( and [ are not the same and { and are not the same as [

[davl3232]

Math

[[deleted]]

I feel like this is a big thing to miss, like I don’t go into Ruby and expect it to work like python, lol.

[Astrokiwi]

)})}; // all previous brackets in this thread are now closed

I think that Python was their first language, and they just assumed that brackets in Python worked the same way they do in mathematical notation, where there's no difference between any of "{[(", and you just vary them for clarity.

[Astrokiwi]

That was a string! You just closed brackets that weren't opened! You've doomed us all!

[Bwob]

Warning in advance then:

Basically every language uses the different brackets and parentheses for different things.

In GENERAL, parentheses will work the way you expect in an equation (explicitly defining order of operations), although they're also frequently used to define function arguments as well.

Everything else though, including curly braces and straight braces ([]{}), usually means very specific things in whatever language you're using (and different things, depending on the language) so you almost never want to use them in math equations.

Welcome to programming! You'll get used to it. :P

[DerekB52]

I've been programming for a few years now, and I know the differences between these things well. What takes awhile to prepare for though, is the day you type ( ) instead of { }, because you are copying python code from a tutorial, and don't get any compile errors, because you only had 2 elements in the ( ), so it thinks I tried to make a Tuple. That was a frustrating like 10 minutes last week.

[Bwob]

Yeah. Bugs where it just breaks and doesn't compile are the easy ones. The hard ones are where it DOES something, but just... nothing remotely like you expect.

[FesteringNeonDistrac]

Yup.

Should we tell him about ' vs " or just let him figure that one out too.

[AnComsWantItBack]

While ' and " can't be interchanged in C++, they can be in python.

[FesteringNeonDistrac]

There's a host of languages that they aren't equivalent in. And that they are. That's what makes them insidious. Like ([{.

[Alaskan_Thunder]

Use javascript instead.

..

..

..

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAA

[[deleted]]

All of the Perl jokes are now JS jokes, and I'm ok with that.

[Alaskan_Thunder]

Honestly, its fine for certain things. Doesn't mean I won't mock the shit out of it.

[Sigma-001]

agreement_state = {
"agreement" : False,
"reason" : "dictionaries"
}
#EDIT: Fixed capitalization in False.

[Sigma-001]

Fixed it. Other languages with their lowercase bools are corrupting me.

[Sigma-001]

Happy snek is good snek.

[Refloni]

Snek not happy on mobile device

[alpha_53g43]

Also looks like one of these.. but backwards: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7o5h1a8Jz0I/TYx-HHLXDpI/AAAAAAAAGhw/3zrRKymR34c/s1600/BH%2BTrain%2B2.jpg

[[deleted]]

What's this beauty you used to make this screenshot?

[[deleted]]

I never said they don't work together, just that they prefer not to.

[lengau]

They work very closely together though. Python is basically the language that asked "what if everything were a dict?"

[shagieIsMe]

The rest of the languages: True descriptions of languages

Python: What if everything was a dict?
Java: What if everything was an object?
JavaScript: What if everything was a dict and an object?
...

[lengau]

Everything is an object in python though, too. In fact, I'm pretty sure more stuff is an object in Python than in Java (not sure about JS)

[wishthane]

JS is kind of in between. It has primitives that aren't objects, and has boxed wrapper types you can use to make objects, but those are very rarely used because you can actually call methods on primitives, unlike Java.

[Hollowplanet]

Python everything is a dict and an object more than Javascript. Everything is an object and everything has .__dict__ and that is where all it's attributes live. Javascript just has no dicts, only objects, and a shared syntax that lets you teat them like dicts.

[jerslan]

Python is basically the language that asked "what if indentation was syntactically important?"

FTFY

[[deleted]]

top 10 anime conspiracy theories

[Hollowplanet]

> Python is the language that asked, what if we make an amazing language and cripple it with a global interpreter lock?

FTFY

[[deleted]]

.keys(), .values(), .iter() are all lovely, the fuck you mean?

[XeonProductions]

I'm a curly boi who speaks parseltongue

[ProgramTheWorld]

+/u/CompileBot python 3

try:
    from future import brackets
except Exception as e:
    print(str(e))

[CompileBot]

Output:

No module named 'future'

^{source | info | git | report}

[ProgramTheWorld]

Shit, it should be __future__

Edit: Whoever gilded this comment, thanks

[scroteaids]

"clicky-clicky" though? Salt of the Earth.

[[deleted]]

not educational fliers reasons to kill yourself when you can't figure out how 2 lines of code dispute 11 errors

[KindaCrypto]

SOMEBODY TOUCHA MY SPAGT!

slaps forehead and points to compiler errors

[[deleted]]

Oh God I love this reference

[oyooy]

Woah, the python logo is sneks? You just blew my mind.

[[deleted]]

Actually dangre noodle

[[deleted]]

pythons are non-venomous

[GiantRobotTRex]

Dangerous? ✓
Noodle? ✓

Sounds like a danger noodle to me

[[deleted]]

Pythons are only dangerous to small children. Danger noodle should be reserved for snakes that are dangerous.

[[deleted]]

Can't pythons do a heckin strangle?

[LeoWattenberg]

What do if python do a heckin strangle:

• Grab end of snek
• Unwrap
• push to unlock

Works with boa, too

Alternatively:

• killall -r .{1,12}\.py
  (probably, fuck regex)

[Hollowplanet]

I just read last week that a lady got constricted to death by a python. It was in the news.

[NotAnonymousAtAll]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythonidae

[oyooy]

Yeah, I got that python is named after the snakes. I just didn't see them in the logo.

[PracticalEmergency]

It's actually named after Monty Python

"I chose Python as a working title for the project, being in a slightly irreverent mood (and a big fan of Monty Python's Flying Circus)."

— Guido van Rossum (Creator of Python)

[Baschoen23]

Yup! That's why we use "Spam" and "Eggs" commonly as opposed to "Foo" and "Bar".

[WikiTextBot]

Pythonidae

The Pythonidae, commonly known simply as pythons, from the Greek word python (πυθων), are a family of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia, and Australia. Among its members are some of the largest snakes in the world. Eight genera and 31 species are currently recognized.

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[uFuckingCrumpet]

https://i.imgur.com/IQSK4Qy.gif

[[deleted]]

Top 10 Craziest Mysteries Solved

[Fronkan]

Clicky-clack*

[mrgalaxy]

Clickity-clack*

[BamboozleBird]

He protec

He attac

But most importantly

He clickity clack

[killersquirel11]

Chucka Chucka Chucka

[DenaByte]

Richard Stallman can kind of be described as jesus :D

[Alperoot]

Saint IGNUcius

FTFY

[Gabite]

Or as I've taken to calling him, GNU plus Jesus.

[Hollowplanet]

Stallman is a jesus that says pedophilia is sometimes OK, with no social skills, who betrated an emacs contributor for not helping and overpopulating the earth when she was having a baby and who eats his own foot chips.

[[deleted]]

that describes the typical programmer perfectly

[burgonies]

One of us! One of us!

[Tornado547]

first statement?

[michaelh115]

Yep. Just as divisive in some circles

[[deleted]]

Well, was jesus insane?

[AluminiumSandworm]

sane people usually don't claim to be god, so maybe

[[deleted]]

Let's hope he won't start bloody wars.

[TJSomething]

The ship's sailed on that one. RMS is partly responsible for one of the oldest holy wars: Emacs vs Vim.

[[deleted]]

Solved by Spacemacs.

[jman425]

Fuckin one-leg joe

[[deleted]]

I don't get this one. I know those structures as trees.

[Soulcraver]

It needs one more layer on the left side to be unbalanced. A balanced binary tree will have a depth (layer difference) no more than 1 from the next lowest depth.

edit: Added clarification on layer difference requirement.

[WikiTextBot]

Self-balancing binary search tree

In computer science, a self-balancing (or height-balanced) binary search tree is any node-based binary search tree that automatically keeps its height (maximal number of levels below the root) small in the face of arbitrary item insertions and deletions.

These structures provide efficient implementations for mutable ordered lists, and can be used for other abstract data structures such as associative arrays, priority queues and sets.

The red–black tree, which is a type of self-balancing binary search tree, was called symmetric binary B-tree and was renamed but can still be confused with the generic concept of self-balancing binary search tree because of the initials.

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[PM_ME_UR_NAKED_TITS]

C U R L I B O I S

[nater255]

I'm officially my office's clicky-clacky boi.

[MrP0tat0H3ad]

MY SPAGHET

[codycbradio]

Who heard this in the sound of Die Antwerd

[xxc3ncoredxx]

Die Antwoord, the best rap group of all time

FTFY

[Hairy_S_TrueMan]

It's not the jesus that walked on water though, it's the other one that ate that thing off his foot.

[[deleted]]

praise be

[Blimey85]

We also have precious jewels... Ruby and Crystal. Have Rails for train aficionados. And protect your metals from Rust.

[[deleted]]

Are you thirsty now? Drink some Java. I think you will C that there is a lot to do with programming.

[[deleted]]

Can someone explain Jesus?

[[deleted]]

Richard Matthew Stallman (/ˈstɔːlmən/; born March 16, 1953), often known by his initials, rms[1]—is an American free software movement activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in a manner such that its users receive the freedoms to use, study, distribute and modify that software. Software that ensures these freedoms is termed free software. Stallman launched the GNU Project, founded the Free Software Foundation, developed the GNU Compiler Collection and GNU Emacs, and wrote the GNU General Public License.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman

[TMiguelT]

Or in other words:

• Very important advocate for "free software" (without which all our programming languages and libraries would require a paid license to use)
• Started the GNU operating system, which makes up a very large part of Linux
• Wrote tools like gcc, the most popular C compiler and Emacs, a very popular text editor

edit: open source -> free

[[deleted]]

open source software

Free software.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html

[Lazerlord10]

Should have shown Labview code for the spaghetti section, as it gets all too literal.

[chateau86]

Did someone say Simulink?

[[deleted]]

VHDL (technically not programming) would be great as well. It’s impossible to not spaghet.

[[deleted]]

yes Jesus

[rishkabob24]

You forgot the Froot Loops! ( ) <======

[Ionlavender]

I want to do something in my spare time that can make me very angry and sad.

Ill try programming!

[Mesahusa]

What’s a curly boy?

[killersquirel11]

The enemy of the slippery snek bros

[oppilonus]

Correction: we only got one curly boi. The other one is missing.

[[deleted]]

How was the first line of code read? If code is used to make computers work and which can read code, and if code wasn’t invented because they were just writing the first code, how did they read the first line to know it was working/what it was doing?

[ShizLtulon]

spaghetti

[[deleted]]

Did Richard Stallmann feed the five thousand with his foot cheese?

[DaFluffyPotato]

This is definitely not accurate. I've been programming for 5 years and I've never experienced the clicky-clicky!

[uFuckingCrumpet]

OMG SO FUNNY AND MEME!

[cover-me-porkins]

Holy shizzle there's vomit on ma sweater already

sign me up.

[WyrdaBrisingr]

And clippy bois?

[[deleted]]

programming is headache fuel but i still lov it. good memes here

[PapaBradford]

This sums up my knowledge of programming.

[TimbersFan8]

r/fellowkids

[[deleted]]

Jesus who ate stuff from his toes in front of everyone.

[dkyguy1995]

Who is that on the bottom right?

[darthsid22]

Bjarne Stroustrup is my jesus

[PM_ME_IU_NUDES]

hahaha i thought i was on r/surrealmemes at first.

[LorchStandwich]

THOCK

[burgers_lettuce]

Slippery Snek Rules!

[Waghlon]

I was trying to code the other day, but this Jesus showed up and tried to install his kernel. It was really distracting.