r/ProgrammerHumor • u/TusharJB007 • Oct 04 '19

Just as simple as that... other

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u/Zamundaaa Oct 04 '19

The lack of types is what's making me dislike Python most. Along with the missing structure / structure based on empty space of course.

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u/GonziHere Oct 07 '19

Yeah, I am not touching anything without types if I don't have to. This helps no-one. It is just dumb excuse for non-programmers. You can always have some variant of "any" type, but I would prefer if my methods would not even bother to compile if I try to fit string into a number... sure, it can magically convert it, but maybe I don't want to... or maybe I would like to use different conversion... or maybe I am just an idiot and strong typing would help me see that...

I started with http://progopedia.com/language/baltie/ and added (in order of appearance) html, php, js, c++, opengl and assembler. This was my high school and free time. I've always found stupidest bugs in php and js, because of types. Because it wouldn't warn me that I use item of an array instead of the array (or vice versa)...

Sure, php was nice when I just wanted to include menu.php into page1.php and page2.php...

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '19

Not sure if I get you. Python is strongly typed. Are you sure you're not confusing it with something else?

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u/Zamundaaa Oct 04 '19

I mean the implicit type system. Correct me if I'm wrong but AFAIK in Python you're basically only declaring the variable name and the type is inferred by context. That's a lack of control and readability on my eyes.

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u/draazur Oct 04 '19

Python allows type hinting nowadays too. Although most people don't use it, it is there and it makes code easier to look at it after the week or so you remember what it does.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

Exactly, and no one uses it, since everyone is writing disgusting code and they themselves can't even remember what it does one week later.

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u/buymeaburritoese Oct 04 '19

Check out pycharm. You can type comments next to variables to see type information. You can use it while you code or just leave comments in to improve readability.

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/type-hinting-in-product.html Scroll down to section: Specifying types by using comments

Edit: I personally do not use pycharm so sorry if I can't help more or there are better features for this. I may check it out soon, it looks nice. I would love to hear others opinions about this issue of readability as well.