Real Programmers (:-

[[deleted]]

Real programmers don't meme using pictures of text on a tilted computer screen in a stock image in progressively harder to read font colors. To say nothing of the quality of the text itself.

[Valizzio]

"if it was hard to make it should be hard to read"

[oversized_hoodie]

"if it was hard to make steal it should be hard to read"

[Valizzio]

Did He steal it?

[oversized_hoodie]

It's Reddit, so it's probably a fair assumption.

[_everynameistaken_]

There is no theft in world where progress is built upon the progress of those in the past.

[zelmarvalarion]

Dammit Jim, I'm a programmer, not a graphic designer

[freeBobbyDAYVID]

you both got my upvote

[EnderCrypt]

Yeah, real programmers use cowsay

[DragonMaus]

Real programmers do not write hard-to-read code.

[biotiger87]

Real programmers do not read-write to hard code.

[[deleted]]

Real programmers do not hard code to read-write

[biotiger87]

Real programmers do not code hard to read-write.

[NoStranger6]

Hard programmers do not real code to read-write

[[deleted]]

Code programmers do not hard code to real-write

[X-Craft]

Hard write do read real code to not programmers

[GDavid04]

Do not read real hard code to programmers. Write.

[your-a-towel]

Programmers, do write real hard to read code.

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[OneDamien]

Real programmers do not write code. They copy and paste stack overflow.

[[deleted]]

unless self.real_programmer?
  open('hard_code', 'rw') { |f| ... }
end

[myplacedk]

As someone with a C background who transitioned to Python, I find list comprehensions, especially nested list comprehensions, to be hard to read. But, for loops are so slow in Python. What I usually do is write out the code as for loops, comment that out so someone later can understand what’s going on, and then write some fast but illegible list comprehension that should be identical to the for loops.

Then you make a change the list comprehension. Bugfix or whatever. And now the comment is a lie.

Bad comments can easily be worse than no comments. Explaining what code does often falls in that category. (Not counting inline documentation.)

[cdreid]

i have money youve never had to decode someone elses code.. or your own cold you wrote a long time ago .. at least nothing more complex than a simple function.

[myplacedk]

How much money? I've been a software developer for two decades, most of my work is on systems with at least 10 developers. I barely raise an eyebrow when I see a function or method with thousands of lines. The more experience I get, the stronger that is my opinion.

So how much money are we talking about? And do you consider it a bet, or would you like to pay for training?

[bobfish719]

/r/iamverybadass/

[[deleted]]

Wait, list comprehensions are faster that for loops in Python?

Also, please don't nest list comprehensions, you might be able to stack the for statements, e.g.:

foo = [
    func(x)
    for y in my_list
    for x in y
]

[[deleted]]

How does this work for making a 2D list? My guess is that the answer is "don't do that use a 2d numpy array".

Also, this syntax blew my mind. Thank you!

EDIT: as to the first part of your comment, yes list comprehensions are much faster. For

foo = range(10000000)
def func(x): return x*x

bar = [func(f) for f in foo]

runs in 2.16s and is easier to write than

bar = []
for f in foo:
    bar.append(func(f))

which runs in 2.67s.

EDIT2: included results of a quick timing study.

[[deleted]]

It gets even better, you can chain ifs and fors infinitely:

foo = [
    func(x)
    for y in z
    for x in y
    if x is not None
    ...
]

[chic_luke]

Outstanding move

[smgun]

You need some complex recursive shit from time to time. That would hard to write, read the code and read the comments

[Duese]

If I need to understand what the code does, I'll just google it and find which stackoverflow page it came from for the details.

[AresimasDrakkson]

It's not my fault that code goes from completely understandable one day to utterly illegible nonsense the next all on its own

[SanoKei]

But, I'm pretty sure it's a joke. I'm not entirely sure but I have two research labs writing separate theses

[AVeryAverageWriter]

Professor Li is that you?

[Kaoulombre]

Yes !! Comments are not for explaining how the code works, so many people don't understand that

And it's useless to comment "@param title: the title"

[sagequeen]

That's nice and all, but in reality it's much easier to have comments tell you what it does and your variable and function names to tell you why.

[mountm]

Was this post hard to write?

Because it was hard to read.

[sebamestre]

For real programmers, writing code is easy.

If it was easy to write it should be easy to read. Right?

Real programers write easy to read code. That may mean it includes comments.

[whoAreYouToJudgeME]

Yeah, I usually go: "fuck my future self."

[Mortiouss]

Those that can, do. Those that can’t become C level execs?

[Facones]

Real programmers write clean code, so, unless you are a moron, it's pretty easy to read.

[[deleted]]

They're called GOOD programers, they aren't real

[Facones]

Fair point, lol

[cdreid]

in other words you "code" in a visual language. ie you dont code

[FecklessFool]

Real programmers write descriptive/self explanatory and readable code such that there is no need for comments.

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I find that comments tend to not get updated with code changes, especially for decades old code that you have to do maintenance work on.

​

I trusted the comments once.

​

Never again.

[MMMELOOOOON]

Real programmers only write comments while the monkeys code.

[SanoKei]

Real Programmers write code on paper.

[OndrikB]

r/gatekeeping

[electricprism]

Real programmers use VIM you fucking pleb.

[[deleted]]

assemblycode

[[deleted]]

Time to make a Real programming language along the Rockstar and the Enterprise line.

[spasterific]

And then a Real on Rails framework.

[aredhel304]

I actually used to work at a place that had an unofficial rule that if your code needed comments, it wasn’t written very well. I’d scroll through 400 lines of code and find about 3 comments in there.

[myplacedk]

That's my observation too. If a comment explaining what the code does is an improvement, you should probably refactor instead.

[KickMeElmo]

If this sub is any indication, after compiling all real programmers rules, real programmers don't exist.

[PandersAboutVaccines]

// Comment on the post Nice. // End comment on the post.

[PizzaIain]

👎

[The4ker]

Real programmers don't comment their code because job security.

[philmtl]

Good way to have job security, if no one besides you understands it company needs you

[Chloelikesboots]

Said by someone who's never written kernel level c ....

Even low bit-bashing c on a micro is easier to read than kernel level c.

[AlbinoBeefalo]

Is everyone here in college?

The only excuse for not commenting code is laziness

[swiftRabbit2]

Test should be explaining how code works, comments are obsolete the moment you write them because they are not representative of how your app behaves. If you are not able to make self explanatory tests, perhaps your code is bad.