top | item 44700230 (no title) rastignack | 7 months ago Nowadays a lot of people script in python discuss order hn newest general1726|7 months ago Yeah sure after they are done fighting with venv or why this scripts written in a different version of Python behaves differently on this computer...During scripting they can be constantly annoyed by Python's indentation errors. Really awesome stuff when your syntax is whitespace dependent. sargstuff|7 months ago > ... behaves differently on this computer...vs. in linux, running powershell scripts under a virtualized instance of windows to avoid linux OS / windows OS differences issues?----other extreme end of the 'whitespace' spectrum:APL : no white space / single character instead of multicharacter programming language tokens. Maximum expressiveness without any need for whitespace!
general1726|7 months ago Yeah sure after they are done fighting with venv or why this scripts written in a different version of Python behaves differently on this computer...During scripting they can be constantly annoyed by Python's indentation errors. Really awesome stuff when your syntax is whitespace dependent. sargstuff|7 months ago > ... behaves differently on this computer...vs. in linux, running powershell scripts under a virtualized instance of windows to avoid linux OS / windows OS differences issues?----other extreme end of the 'whitespace' spectrum:APL : no white space / single character instead of multicharacter programming language tokens. Maximum expressiveness without any need for whitespace!
sargstuff|7 months ago > ... behaves differently on this computer...vs. in linux, running powershell scripts under a virtualized instance of windows to avoid linux OS / windows OS differences issues?----other extreme end of the 'whitespace' spectrum:APL : no white space / single character instead of multicharacter programming language tokens. Maximum expressiveness without any need for whitespace!
general1726|7 months ago
During scripting they can be constantly annoyed by Python's indentation errors. Really awesome stuff when your syntax is whitespace dependent.
sargstuff|7 months ago
vs. in linux, running powershell scripts under a virtualized instance of windows to avoid linux OS / windows OS differences issues?
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other extreme end of the 'whitespace' spectrum:
APL : no white space / single character instead of multicharacter programming language tokens. Maximum expressiveness without any need for whitespace!