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You can't understand my pain (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by egeres to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can use the C preprocessor on any source code.

[–] marcos 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Or m4 if you are into it.

M4 + python would make for a great combo.

[–] muzzle 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Please don't.

[–] marcos 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But...

What is more pythonic than semantic whitespace?

[–] muzzle 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Preprocessing source code is an awful idea and I wish it never became widespread.

I used to hate semantic whitespace, but I came around when I was using it anyway.

[–] marcos 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh bummer... I was so glad believing somebody understood the m4 joke.

Text preprocessors for code are awful. But the m4 + python combo is so full of landmines that I'm wondering if I should try it.

[–] muzzle 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can only defend myself with the good old "it is impossible to write a Y̶o̶u̶T̶u̶b̶e̶ Lemmy comment stupid enough that everyone will realise it is ment to be sarcastic"

[–] marcos 2 points 10 months ago

I would say that one should expect a high probability of comments on "Programmer Humor" being sarcastic. But deep down I know you are right.