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I've had some Issues with KornShell. I wrote a quick unit Counting script, kind of a Dirty hack to try it out. "Let's Get This Party Started," I thought as I hit enter on my keyboard, eager to see the units print on my screen. But it couldn't even count to "4 U". Instead, it printed "./count.sh[3]: syntax error: `(' unexpected" and just stopped Dead. I tried again, thinking It's Gonna Go Away. Nope, No Way. Am I Going Crazy? Somebody Somewhere has to know what's going wrong. Before long, I realized I had to Wake Up and face the truth that KornShell is very particular about whitespace. Those of you who only write in modern languages and environments, I Wish You Could Be Me for just a moment to realize how nice you have it today and how you don't have to put up with Trash that can't parse without whitespace.

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When I write code with whitespace enforced, I feel my brain slowly falling away from me. But with Python being so popular, I wonder if people look at me like I'm a freak on a leash.

Coming from writing a lot of lisp, all day I dream about s-expressions

All of y'all doing this gives me incalculable joy for reasons I don't even fully understand myself.

Thank you. Shine on you crazy WABBLABA DOOOOOO BADIBA DIBBA GO!s

Good old Adidas!

As a fan of Lisp/Scheme, I find it's a bit like parens: if one's editor mostly takes care of it (auto de/indenting) then it's not that bad, otherwise it can get annoying quickly.

The teams/projects I've been part of the last couple of years make heavy use of Nim, which is whitespace delimited. My editor is Emacs and lsp-mode + nimlsp (latter is the LSP server; lsp-mode also leverages nim-mode) do an okay-ish job, but not a great one to be honest. Some days I really wish for curly braces.

Any time that is not spent thinking about how to model data and behavior in your domain is a genuine waste ;)

I feel like that sometimes.

Wow. This is so creative :)

I counted 11 KoRn songs in there. (If counted correctly)

I count 13!

Edit: Issues, Counting, Dirty, Let's Get This Party Started, 4 U, Dead, It's Gonna Go Away, No Way, Am I Going Crazy?, Somebody Somewhere, Wake Up, I Wish You Could Be Me, Trash

"Follow The Leader" album started on track 13 :-)

Trying to determine if you're taunting python devs or not :)

Glad you didn't get into a Twist.

True-fact^1: the song was actually Jonathan Davies reading out 68000 assembler.

[1] Not really.

I thought more a well-written Perl script.

I'm glad someone's Got The Life style that lets them try these experiments.

Did you check to see if one of your transistors was twisted? You'd have to be blind to miss something like that.

Wicked.

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