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I know a lot of people who dropped out of CS in college. Not a single one dropped out because of a semicolon syntax issue.
by dgfitz 2y ago
I know a lot of people who dropped out of CS in college. Not a single one dropped out because of a semicolon syntax issue.
- CalRobert 2y agoI spent 8 hours trying to fix a bug once because notepad used smart quotation marks (really showing my age here - and now I'm pretty annoyed that the instructor was telling us to use notepad, but it was 2001 and I didn't know any better).
- dgfitz 2y agoI did something like that once too, a long time ago. And because of that I see syntax errors of such I’ll within seconds now, having learned once the hard way.
- CalRobert 2y agoI also know how important the right tools are. I should’ve been using vi.
- dgfitz 2y agoIt amuses me to no end: in college I was a total emacs person, and now I’m a total vi person. There might be dozens of us! I think both editors have their flaws, I just know the native vi keybindings better at the moment.
- CalRobert 2y agoEither of them would've made the problem obvious! This was about a million years ago. I had just installed a pirated copy of Windows XP (FCKGW-RHQQ2...) and was in the first quarter of my physics degree, taking a class in C. Different times....