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You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 week ago by flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Indentation-driven control flow is one of the most cursed things ever invented, excluding things explicitly designed to inflict pain or death.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago

White space sensitive languages are evil.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

Haskell has the choice of both indentation based and brackets for things like do blocks, but most people use indentation based cause it's the norm and looks cleaner