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At one of my internships in the 90's, a developer I worked with solved the problem by never indenting. Every single line of code started at column 1.
by fatnoah 3y ago
At one of my internships in the 90's, a developer I worked with solved the problem by never indenting. Every single line of code started at column 1.
- swader999 3y agoWhy even use more than one line?
- solardev 3y agoWhy not just make everything whitespace? Give both tabs and spaces their rightful place! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_%28programming_language%29?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_%28programming_lang...
- throwaway_08932 3y agoSounds like you were an indent-ured labourer.
- alemanek 3y agoIt sounds like this is the origin story of Python. Whoever worked with this person made it their life’s mission to enforce proper indentation.
- otteromkram 3y agoWhy did you leave an empty column at the start? :]
- wkat4242 3y agoTrue, that's how real coders work! 10 IF A=1 OR Z=2 GOTO 30 20 GOTO 50 30 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" 40 GOTO 10 50 GOTO 30
- BrandoElFollito 3y agoIn my PhD on the 90's this is how people were forced to choose with FORTRAN. I chose to code in C and it was painful as well, but less. I would have given a lot to have the environment people have today to do science.