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Did you mention Python experience on your resume? I already find whitespace sensitivity off-putting when I have support from my text editor or IDE. I'd be even
by chitowneats 4y ago
Did you mention Python experience on your resume? I already find whitespace sensitivity off-putting when I have support from my text editor or IDE. I'd be even more annoyed if forced to use it on a whiteboard.
- telotortium 4y agoOn the contrary, whitespace indentation is best on the whiteboard, and is probably what inspired Python in the first place (whiteboarding in education + pseudocode). It removes the main issues with whitespace indentation (spaces being coalesced in things like HTML and parser that's overly picky about the exact number of spaces in a block). As long as you can vaguely line up a block vertically, anyone will be able to figure out what you mean on the whiteboard.
- chitowneats 4y agoThis is actually a pretty persuasive argument to me. My frustration comes from using it to satisfy a machine. Humans are much more flexible.