* 1-based indexing is superior to 0-based indexing. 1-based indexing is a special case of 0-based indexing. * If you use spaces to indent code, or in any way

* 1-based indexing is superior to 0-based indexing. 1-based indexing is a special case of 0-based indexing. * If you use spaces to indent code, or in any way rely on a fixed width font to "line things up", you have a fundamental misunderstanding. Fundamental misunderstanding of what? Not having shit PRs on Github? * Relatedly, the 80 column "rule" is as stupid in code as it would be in prose. Use your aesthetic sense. Yeah okay true * Vim and Emacs both have terrible user interfaces, and are an inferior experience to even a normal text editor let alone a decent IDE. Users have Stockholm Syndrome. Also true * For beginners, BASIC is great and Python is terrible. The language for a beginner is irrelevant, the only metric that matters is: Are you enjoying your coding experience? Keeping students coding is all that matters the language is irrelevant. * There are many languages with a 'mystique', like Lisp and APL. The correlation between 'mystique' and practical utility is inverse. This is almost a tautology, of course mystique will lead to less practical utility because their is simply less interest, less tooling, and less understanding about how to use the tool. * Source code should liberally use Unicode symbols. Someone has never looked at Agda source code before and it shows. * Sigils to indicate variable type are actually pretty great, especially if enforced by the compiler. (See above regarding BASIC) Gross.