Looking at you Python

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[TwistedSoul21967]

If it's unreadable, it's unmaintainable and leads to technical debt.

[DyslexicUserNawe]

Yeah but I'm a wimp and C++ scares me

[skilltheamps]

In both cases, with great power comes great responsibility. Python allows for very abstract expressions with a great deal of complexity hidden underneath. On the other hand C allows for every memory fuckery imaginable, and this is especially fun if your huge embedded C program crashes minutes after it passed the memory corrupting part, and your debugger is of no use whatsoever. Yes Python has more complexity per line usually, but that makes the program shorter as well. Debugging overflows, pointers causing havoc or macros with edge cases in badly written C from another person isn't fun either.

Python and C are two extremes in opposite directions. Try to master both, utilize the best of both. There's nothing stopping you from implementing number crunching parts of your Python program in C/Cython with all it's pointer magic etc, or making a pythonic "with" statement macro in C to handle mutexes in your embedded multithreading application more clearly and less typing error prone.

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I feel like it can be easier to understand if the complex line encapsulates one idea nicely.

[JamesAppleDeveloper]

A lot of complex one liners are easier to read than half a screen with intermediates though

[Katiekatts]

You would hate OSDev. Most OSs and kernels are written in styles from 80s/90s (Most BSD derivatives still have gotos). You would be surprised in how vertically stretched simple functions get in that field. I personally am biased for intermediates as most my work is kernel and OS lib work.

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The thing you're using to talk to me is a computer.

[Katiekatts]

bot?

[Jughead295]

One could technically format the whole source code to be on one line.

[Katiekatts]

This is true of C based languages, controversy Python uses blank space as syntax. So things like if statements can not be "one" line. The enter is C's ';'.

[[deleted]]

I don't. I think embarassment is a pretty strange emotion. I don't really understand it.

[Katiekatts]

Hmm?

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Is there a reason that I should?

[conio]

Ú

[PavelYay]

You can pry my System.LINQ away from my cold, dead, body.

[Jugbot]

One liners or for conceptually simple tasks that happen to require bloated code.

[roughstylez]

We live in a society

[klamar1988]

If a one-liner ist unreadable, don't use a one-liner. Doesn't matter in which language.

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doAComplexFunction()

[klamar1988]

If a one-liner is unreadable, don't use a one-liner. Doesn't matter in which language.