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I wrote 20 short programs in Python yesterday. It was wonderful. Perl, I’m leaving you.
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[A Cueball-like friend is talking to Cueball, who is floating in the sky.]
Friend: You’re flying! How?
Cueball: Python!
Cueball: I learned it last night! Everything is so simple!
Cueball: Hello world is just print “Hello, World!”
Friend: I dunno… Dynamic typing? Whitespace?
Cueball: Come join us! Programming is fun again! It’s a whole new world up here!
Friend: But how are you flying?
Cueball: I just typed ‘import antigravity’
Friend: That’s it?
Cueball: …I also sampled everything in the medicine cabinet for comparison.
Cueball: But I think this is the python.
FTFY.
That will cause a compilation error 99.999% of the time and point you to the exact location where the problem is.
Back when I regularly used Java for Minecraft mods n shit id get shit like
Then I’d go to line 68 in the editor and it and the 5 on either side of it are allllllll blank. Wonderfully helpful!
Well there’s your problem, they’re blank when they should be ;
Well, which of these lines causes a compilation error?
Spoiler
The last one. It’s not a semicolon but a Greek question mark…
Compilation error (line 3, col 18): ; expected Compilation error (line 3, col 18): Unexpected character ';'edit: fuck that formatting