Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 11/25/24 4:56 AM, D wrote:

  On Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

On 11/24/24 7:36 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 19:35:57 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

Do kinda pref "{ }" or "begin end" over the dangling depth thing ...
get six or eight levels into something and it's a total bitch to spot
what's inside what without using comments.

 So use the comments. That’s what I do.

  Only good way ...
  Not a killer, but kinda annoying. The eye doesn't
 spot indents nearly was well as hard delimiters.
 

 You can have indents _and_ delimiters for the ultimate in eye spotting capability! ;)

>
 As I said to Larry, I almost always use just 2-space
 indents so deeply-nested stuff doesn't tend to run
 off the page margin. Object langs make this even worse
 with all the something.something.something.something
 sorts of lines.
>
 SOME of the IDEs for Python KINDA help, can spot
 nestings fairly well, but I mostly just use nano
 in one terminal and do test runs from another.
 Something like PyCharm or Visual are kinda overkill
 most of the time.
>

I use four, but since worked as a systems administrator (or what today be called "devops") I never wrote any programs large enough, or complicated enough, to run out of line space.
This is what I do not like about power shell. Some of the commands are way too long to type. I like ls, df, du & co! It would be horrible to have to type list_files every time.