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zʏᴀʙiɴ101
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
11:00 AM
I'll be never following him. Not even for all the gold in the world.
 
R. Kap
R. Kap
@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 Following who?
 
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
Just because he doesn't follow MY advice.
@R.Kap You!
 
thepiercingarrow
thepiercingarrow
lol
 
R. Kap
R. Kap
@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 Aw... :(
 
thepiercingarrow
thepiercingarrow
Zyabin what is your GH username?
 
R. Kap
R. Kap
11:01 AM
 
thepiercingarrow
thepiercingarrow
gtg eat dinner, bbl
 
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
@thepiercingarrow schas002
 
thepiercingarrow
thepiercingarrow
@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 Oh right I forgot... derp :/
 
R. Kap
R. Kap
Well, does not matter. I'll still follow you @zʏᴀʙiɴ101
@thepiercingarrow What is your GitHub username?
 
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
:D
 
thepiercingarrow
thepiercingarrow
11:02 AM
@R.Kap Its thepiercingarrow, obviously. XD
@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 Wow you have quite a few followers!
 
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
@thepiercingarrow Two!
 
thepiercingarrow
thepiercingarrow
@R.Kap Wait nevermind!!
Oops I forgot
 
R. Kap
R. Kap
@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 What advice?
 
thepiercingarrow
thepiercingarrow
@R.Kap its thepiercingarrow2
 
R. Kap
R. Kap
@thepiercingarrow All right, cool. I'll follow you. :)
 
thepiercingarrow
thepiercingarrow
11:03 AM
I made an account thepiercingarrow under the wrong email (when I contacted GitHub, they said it was a similar email, so it was probably a typo). Then I forgot the password :/
So yeah they said wait 12 months then they can reset it.
 
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
@R.Kap I was going to teach you when TPA started to teach you.
 
thepiercingarrow
thepiercingarrow
I actually just emailed them about 4 hours ago, hopefully I'll have it changed by tomorrow :D
@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 When?
@R.Kap Thanks :)
 
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Q: Want Visual studio download link

Amit GoelI am learning dot net with c# ..I cannot find the visual studio 2010 software, I searched a lot. Please give the direct link to download it.

programming-puzzle c#
 
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
18 mins ago, by thepiercingarrow
Try making a repository called RyanxR.github.io, then put an index.html in the root.
 
R. Kap
R. Kap
@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 Well, sorry that TPA starting teaching me. Do you want to teach me now?
@thepiercingarrow @zʏᴀʙiɴ101 Wait, since I now have a GitHub, does that mean I can now download any files I upload to my computer using HomeBrew?
 
thepiercingarrow
thepiercingarrow
11:07 AM
hm?
@R.Kap Use git clone
Or follow @zʏᴀʙiɴ101's advice :D
gtg eat dinner, bbl
 
R. Kap
R. Kap
@thepiercingarrow All right, see you later.
 
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
@R.Kap Nope. :'(
 
R. Kap
R. Kap
@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 Aw... :'(
Then how do people get there packages available to be installed by homebrew/pip/any other package management system using git?
Well, it's 4:15 in the morning here, and I have not slept a wink. I'm going to try now and probably wake up at 11:00 in the morning.
Good night!
@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 Will you follow me now?
 
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
@R.Kap Still not.
 
R. Kap
R. Kap
@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 Ok
How can I make it up to you?
 
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
11:19 AM
No way.
 
thepiercingarrow
thepiercingarrow
@R.Kap Play with him.
@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 Wanna play?
@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 Mini crosswords?
 
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
@thepiercingarrow I can't.
 
R. Kap
R. Kap
@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 Aw...
 
thepiercingarrow
thepiercingarrow
@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 :( okay
 
R. Kap
R. Kap
I made @zʏᴀʙiɴ101 mad
 
LegionMammal978
LegionMammal978
11:19 AM
@R.Kap He used alex-is-wrong (which he isn't) inappropriately
 
R. Kap
R. Kap
I feel so bad...
@LegionMammal978 Ah, okay. I see. Thanks for clearing that up.
 
LegionMammal978
LegionMammal978
disappears (again?) in a puff of smoke
 
R. Kap
R. Kap
@LegionMammal978 I made @zʏᴀʙiɴ101 mad at me
Anyway you think I can make it up to him?
 
LegionMammal978
LegionMammal978
No idea, I'm a bit of an introvert
 
thepiercingarrow
thepiercingarrow
@R.Kap Yup just play with him XD
 
R. Kap
R. Kap
11:22 AM
@LegionMammal978 Oh, okay
@thepiercingarrow But he does not want to play...
 
LegionMammal978
LegionMammal978
disappears(???) in another puff of smoke
 
thepiercingarrow
thepiercingarrow
@LegionMammal978 What's with the cool effects?
@R.Kap Wait a day or two
disappears in a puff of smoke
 
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
disappears in a puff of smoke with caption "GONE!"
 
R. Kap
R. Kap
Audience cheers for kid throwing a bottle and landing it perfectly
 
thepiercingarrow
thepiercingarrow
@R.Kap lol
its not even that hard.
 
R. Kap
R. Kap
11:24 AM
@thepiercingarrow I know, right?
 
thepiercingarrow
thepiercingarrow
Just practice for like an hour.
I can do it 4/5 times and I only practiced for like 5 minuets.
 
R. Kap
R. Kap
@thepiercingarrow I have done it so many times when I was younger...
I used to play around (and break...) with random items all the time
And still do to this day
 
thepiercingarrow
thepiercingarrow
@R.Kap cool!
 
LegionMammal978
LegionMammal978
reappears(?????) in a puff of confetti
 
R. Kap
R. Kap
@LegionMammal978 Crowd boos
 
LegionMammal978
LegionMammal978
11:28 AM
lol, I've got 369 answers and one question on this site
 
R. Kap
R. Kap
Doge appears
 
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
appears in a puff of smoke with caption "POOF!"
 
LegionMammal978
LegionMammal978
disappears(?????) in a puff of spaghetti
 
R. Kap
R. Kap
Crowd goes wild for Doge
Disappears by slowly walking away to backstage
Voila!
@LegionMammal978 Do you know how to get GitHub packages available for download on package managers such as homebrew, pip, etc.?
Hello! @EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Up so soon?
or up so late?
Well, since no one seems to be talking, I'm going to go to sleep now. G'Night!
 
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
in Sandbox, 34 secs ago, by zʏᴀʙiɴ101
I'm officially at the beach!
 
SuperJedi224
SuperJedi224
11:43 AM
Hi guys
Okay I'll come back a bit later
 
Lembik
Lembik
hi @SuperJedi224
 
SuperJedi224
SuperJedi224
Hello again
Was exploring B36/S24 with some different symmetries, found a couple of 60-bit still lifes
 
Katenkyo
Katenkyo
11:59 AM
@SuperJedi224 This is neat!
 
SuperJedi224
SuperJedi224
Both of those were found using the D8_4 symmetry option.
I also found a p14 oscillator
Got to go for now, I guess
 
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
zʏᴀʙiɴ101
12:15 PM
The classic 5-life test returns:
A single bit dies.
A block dies.
A blinker still works.
A beehive still works.
A glider dies in 3 gens.
Ohh, the Catagolue's custom Chrome tool bar is neat.
 
Katenkyo
Katenkyo
I find the Catagolue is pushing hard on my bad laptop when playing some objects
 
flawr
flawr
12:32 PM
 
Lembik
Lembik
you know you could be answering my challenge instead :)
 
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Q: Reverse a string while maintaining the capitalization in the same places

MidnightasThe goal here is to simply reverse a string, with one twist: Keep the capitalization in the same places. Example Input: Hello, Midnightas Example Output: SathginDim, olleh Rules: Output to STDOUT, input from STDIN The winner will be picked 13th of July on GMT+3 12:00 (One week) You may use a ...

code-golf string
 
Katenkyo
Katenkyo
@Lembik You know you don't have to repeat it, people will answer it eventually :p
 
Lembik
Lembik
@Katenkyo thank you :)
 
Katenkyo
Katenkyo
Also, fastest code are usually longer to attract answers ^^
 
Lembik
Lembik
12:35 PM
@Katenkyo that is a good point. Technically it is code-challenge. It's hard to pose fastest-challenge questions as you need to time them all on the same computer
which excludes languages such as mathematica immediately
I have done it in the past but I always feel bad for the lovers of C# and mathematica (C# sort of works in linux but not as well as in winblows)
 
Lembik
Lembik
12:51 PM
@FryAmTheEggman Thanks for the new tags
 
Anonymous
 
Lembik
Lembik
1:09 PM
@Mego Looks like a lot of fun!
shame I don't like pyth or cjam :)
 
FryAmTheEggman
FryAmTheEggman
No problem, I think you had them in the Sandbox anyway :P
 
Lembik
Lembik
@FryAmTheEggman I did and then I lost my nerve :)
I sometimes get told off by the tag police
who tell me "It is LOGICALLY IMPOSSIBLE" to have tags X and Y at the same time .. didn't you READ paragraph 23 subsection 7.3???
 
Katenkyo
Katenkyo
@Lembik But this is where C and Lua lovers shines ^^
 
Lembik
Lembik
or things like that :)
@Katenkyo aha!
I still wish we had more Rust, D, Julia and Nim answers
 
FryAmTheEggman
FryAmTheEggman
@Mego I had looked at your challenge already, it looks fine. Although I think describing how random the values of a_i should be might be a good idea.
I'd assume uniformly was your intention?
 
Anonymous
1:14 PM
Yeah, I wish we (challenge authors) didn't have to define random as uniform every time. That should be the default. That's what a normal person would assume.
 
Lembik
Lembik
random == uniform unless stated otherwise unless it means normally distributed but maybe you can guess from the context... :)
 
Katenkyo
Katenkyo
@Mego Hum, this is a nice one, would love to do it :)
 
Lembik
Lembik
@Mego "normal person" teehee :)
user image
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Katenkyo
Katenkyo
@Lembik We'd need more users who golf in them for that :)
 
Lembik
Lembik
@Katenkyo or some incentive scheme?
@Katenkyo and PPCG != golfing!
 
Anonymous
1:15 PM
I see Julia answers all the time on the math-oriented challenges
 
Lembik
Lembik
don't forget the PP part
@Mego cool
is there some way to search answers by language?
 
Anonymous
Specifically, I see Alex and Dennis posting Julia answers all the time :P
 
Lembik
Lembik
they rock :)
 
Anonymous
is:a <language name> is about the closest you can get
 
Anonymous
Julia seems like a happy medium between Python and Matlab/Octave, from my very limited exposure
 
Katenkyo
Katenkyo
1:17 PM
@Lembik Yes, but code-golfs are what we see the most :)
 
Lembik
Lembik
@Katenkyo I know... :(
I even set them sometimes so that people won't get too annoyed with me :)
 
FryAmTheEggman
FryAmTheEggman
@Lembik You could also visit the Julia chatroom if you want to discuss it, I think Dennis and Alex are usually there
 
Anonymous
@Lembik I think of you as the fastest-code guy :P
 
Lembik
Lembik
thanks
@Mego that is my real love!
I just haven't quite worked out how to set them to allow code that won't run on my linux box
 
Anonymous
I like fastest-code, but I often don't have enough contiguous free time to get any real work done on optimizing for speed.
 
Anonymous
1:19 PM
You could always use Cloud9 or Travis for timing
 
Lembik
Lembik
@Mego they still won't support mathematica for example I assume
or maybe even C#?
@Mego just stick to answering my challenges only .. that will save time :)
 
Anonymous
Cloud9 can do C# via Mono
 
Poke
Poke
anyone work with eclipse
 
Lembik
Lembik
right.. but I think mono is not the same speed as the windows compiler
which annoys the windows people
 
Anonymous
And Travis can do anything if you're willing to put together a script to install dependencies
 
Lembik
Lembik
1:20 PM
I could be wrong about that of coure
I mean I do have a linux box so I can run mono code here too
 
Anonymous
Well, .NET is going open-source, so an official MS compiler built for Linux shouldn't take too much longer
 
Lembik
Lembik
interesting
 
Katenkyo
Katenkyo
I'm always scared of participating in fastest-code
 
Lembik
Lembik
well mine is called code-challenge :)
so don't be scared
 
LegionMammal978
LegionMammal978
^ wat
 
Katenkyo
Katenkyo
1:22 PM
I know I'm not a great dev and lacks lot of the mathematical tools needed to create a wonderful algorythm that will have a complexity in O(n^5) ^^
 
Lembik
Lembik
@Katenkyo the interesting thing about the real world is that big Oh complexity doesn't always rule in practice
because big Oh complexity is about worst case inputs which often are rare in practice
also in my experience of my challenges, if Peter Taylor takes part you won't win.. otherwise it's wide open :)
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Katenkyo
Katenkyo
@Lembik Whenever I'm around a computer, the worst case will always happen...
 
Lembik
Lembik
@Katenkyo :)
 
Poke
Poke
Can't go wrong optimizing for big omega
:]?
 
Anonymous
@Lembik Except for that one challenge with Dennis
 
Lembik
Lembik
1:24 PM
@Mego ah yes
actually I did see Peter Taylor not win once on one of my challenges. It was against a nim expert
 
Anonymous
I still want to make an OpenCL submission, but I haven't had the time to brush off my rusty knowledge from that one college course 2 years ago
 
Lembik
Lembik
who is rarely here
 
LegionMammal978
LegionMammal978
Well, absolute time can also matter...
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LegionMammal978Mathematica, O(k^2(k!)^2) time Length[Union@@(Fold[Flatten[{StringReplace[#,#2->"0"],StringReplace[#,#2->"1"]}]&,#,Union[Characters[#]]]&/@#)]& Hopefully I calculated the time complexity correctly. Input is a list of formulas such as {"bacb","bcab","cbba","abbc"}. Runs in less than 30 seconds ...

> O(k^2(k!)^2)
 
Lembik
Lembik
@Mego it would be nice if we could include GPU challenges somehow
they seem an important and tricky part of coding
 
Anonymous
OpenCL is nice in that it will automagically compile the code for any and all computational devices available
 
LegionMammal978
LegionMammal978
1:26 PM
@Lembik Please don't let GPU-based golfing languages become a thing...
 
Anonymous
So you get CPU and GPU programs running together with almost no additional hassle
 
Lembik
Lembik
cool.. although if you want to take full advantage of your GPU it's still tricky right?
@LegionMammal978 :)
 
Katenkyo
Katenkyo
@LegionMammal978 that sounds scary...
@Lembik Yep, but doesn't that highly depend on your GPU?
 
Lembik
Lembik
@Katenkyo I think so although I am no expert
I would love it if somehow one could ask golf challenges which were independent of syntax
 
Anonymous
@Lembik If you want to take full advantage of your GPU, you have to use the GPU programming framework native to it (CUDA for Nvidia, OpenCL for AMD), and probably do some awful hacks to squeeze out every last bit of performance.
 
Lembik
Lembik
1:29 PM
I find short and clever solutions very interesting but pyth/cjam less so
 
LegionMammal978
LegionMammal978
But yeah, you'd be surprised to see how many built-in functions run in O ( n ) average time in Mathematica
 
Lembik
Lembik
although the most efficient code to find the max of a list is weird in mathematica :)
 
Anonymous
Prime counting is an ideal task for a GPU-based program, since sieves can be parallelized with ease and get huge performance benefits
 
Lembik
Lembik
interesting
 
Katenkyo
Katenkyo
Honestly, if you want your program to run faster, you just have to use this computer
 
Lembik
Lembik
1:33 PM
ok here is a really naive coding question
can anyone explain the convention to put two underscores before and after names ? Like global
grr
__ global __ without the spaces
 
Katenkyo
Katenkyo
@Lembik __global__? ^^
 
Lembik
Lembik
yes
 
Anonymous
@Katenkyo Honestly a lot of programs wouldn't see significant speedup on that computer. Very few things are multi-threaded, and those that are often only use up to ~10 threads. Adding more cores gives diminishing returns on all but the most massive of computing tasks.
 
Lembik
Lembik
not sure how you typed that :)
 
Katenkyo
Katenkyo
use backticks as a delimiter for codes
 
Lembik
Lembik
1:34 PM
ah ok thanks
as soon as I see code with underscores I switch off
 
Katenkyo
Katenkyo
Also, we use underscores because we wouldn't do that for our variables
 
Lembik
Lembik
help needed :)
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
 
FryAmTheEggman
FryAmTheEggman
@Lembik Primarily, the purpose is to signify that it is a special value that shouldn't be changed. Also if you want that to show up without the bolding you could put backslashes before them to escape them: __global__
 
Lembik
Lembik
__global__ void multiply_them(float *dest, float *a, float *b) so why has __global__ got underscores?
 
Katenkyo
Katenkyo
1:36 PM
@Mego Wasn't serious about that by the way. And yes, if you're not multi-threading like a monster, it's useless
 
Anonymous
@Lembik In C/C++, identifiers that start with an underscore and a capital letter or that contain adjacent underscores are reserved identifiers. Other languages copied that standard.
 
Anonymous
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A: What are the rules about using an underscore in a C++ identifier?

Loki AstariThe rules (which did not change in C++11): Reserved in any scope, including for use as implementation macros: identifiers beginning with an underscore followed immediately by an uppercase letter identifiers containing adjacent underscores (or "double underscore") Reserved in the global names...

 
Lembik
Lembik
@Mego ok .. so let me understand the word identifier
 
Anonymous
identifier = something that could be used as a "variable name"
 
Katenkyo
Katenkyo
@Lembik identifier: something used to identify
 
Anonymous
1:38 PM
(i.e. something that matches the regex [a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*)
 
Lembik
Lembik
@Katenkyo are variables identifiers?
 
Katenkyo
Katenkyo
@Lembik (I won't help on this question, not knowledgeable enough, just wanted to troll a little)
 
Lembik
Lembik
k
 
Katenkyo
Katenkyo
But in general : identifier = meta-variable/value/keyword...
 
Lembik
Lembik
ok so I have read the python answer
 
Katenkyo
Katenkyo
1:40 PM
variable : label (myToto) corresponding to an adress in memory
 
Lembik
Lembik
__foo__: this is just a convention, a way for the Python system to use names that won't conflict with user names.
 
Anonymous
Identifiers are what many people call "variable names"
 
Lembik
Lembik
__foo: this has real meaning: the interpreter replaces this name with _classname__foo as a way to ensure that the name will not overlap with a similar name in another class.
@Mego thanks!
there is also this in python
if __name__ == "__main__":
so __name__ seems to be some sort of global variable
 
Anonymous
Yep, __name__ refers to the current module's name (or "__main__" if it is the main module, aka the one called with python file.py)
 
Katenkyo
Katenkyo
@Lembik __name__ refers to the current call, __main__ is an identifier for the main module
 
Lembik
Lembik
1:43 PM
thanks
all very helpful! Although I am sorry to dirty the PPCG chatroom with programming questions :)
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

atlasologistUnzip some numbers code-golf ascii-art ? Your task is to create a program or function that generates a zipper with a length of 10 lines: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- and unzips it by a percentage divisible by 10, revealing the 1-indexed level within: >>10% -11- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ...

 
Anonymous
Since you shouldn't prefix module/package names with underscores (if you do, you deserve to be beaten with a rubber hose until you realize your mistake), __main__ is a unique identifier for the main module.
 
Lembik
Lembik
@Mego thanks. I assume some people are into rubber hoses :)
 
Anonymous
The if __name__ == '__main__' idiom is a simple way to determine if the current module is being executed or imported.
 
Katenkyo
Katenkyo
@Mego My Java teacher forced us to name our packages __Name because they usually had to contain a class Name...
 
Lembik
Lembik
1:46 PM
python is a funny language. Huge numbers of people, like me, use it but really should be using some other language
 
Anonymous
I think the only 3 standard library modules that do anything other than define functions and/or classes are cmath, antigravity, and this.
 
Lembik
Lembik
as I have no need for 90% of the features that make it really slow
 
Anonymous
@Katenkyo I see two problems. The lesser problem is the bad naming convention. The worse problem is that it's Java.
 
Lembik
Lembik
I mean.. what percentage of python users use frame introspection??
 
Katenkyo
Katenkyo
@Mego Java's still better than C# ^^
 
Anonymous
1:48 PM
Python is great when you need flexibility and readability more than speed
 
FryAmTheEggman
FryAmTheEggman
Wait what does cmath do? I feel like I've imported this dozens of times and I never noticed anything o_0'
 
Lembik
Lembik
@Mego I refer you to my frame introspection question :)
 
Anonymous
@FryAmTheEggman It makes complex literals legal.
 
Anonymous
@Lembik Hardcore debuggers and people trying too hard to do something the hard way.
 
Katenkyo
Katenkyo
(brain's frozen)
 
Anonymous
1:49 PM
Err wait, complex literals still work without cmath
 
Lembik
Lembik
@Mego right! And yet it is one of the main things stopping pyston and other projects from speeding up python properly
 
FryAmTheEggman
FryAmTheEggman
Huh, but I thought they were already legal? 1j works just fine in 3
 
Anonymous
Nevermind, disregard
 
FryAmTheEggman
FryAmTheEggman
Oh, ok :P
 
Anonymous
I think I'm remembering some older version
 
Anonymous
1:50 PM
Which means antigravity and this are the only standard library modules that have global code that runs on import
 
FryAmTheEggman
FryAmTheEggman
this is a really weird module: it has a variable set to 25, I think it was named i?
 
Lembik
Lembik
:)
 
Anonymous
It's ROT-13'd :P
 
FryAmTheEggman
FryAmTheEggman
But only in 2, I think it was dropped in 3
Oh no, it's still there
 
Anonymous
this.i is a leftover loop variable
 
Anonymous
1:53 PM
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Ornhgvshy vf orggre guna htyl.
Rkcyvpvg vf orggre guna vzcyvpvg.
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Pbzcyrk vf orggre guna pbzcyvpngrq.
Syng vf orggre guna arfgrq.
Fcnefr vf orggre guna qrafr.
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Nygubhtu cenpgvpnyvgl orngf chevgl.
Reebef fubhyq arire cnff fvyragyl.
Hayrff rkcyvpvgyl fvyraprq.
Va gur snpr bs nzovthvgl, ershfr gur grzcgngvba gb thrff.
Gurer fubhyq or bar-- naq cersrenoyl bayl bar --boivbhf jnl gb qb vg.
 
Anonymous
Same with this.c
 
Katenkyo
Katenkyo
I don't know why, but I feel like this text is full of curse
 
Anonymous
It really isn't
 
Anonymous
The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters

Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
 
Katenkyo
Katenkyo
It explain why I felt like Iknew this text ^^
 
FryAmTheEggman
FryAmTheEggman
1:56 PM
Yeah, I know what it's for but why isn't it deled?? Seems to violate the Zen of Python itself!? :P
 
Anonymous
It doesn't pollute the global namespace - just the namespace of that module
 
FryAmTheEggman
FryAmTheEggman
Or like, why use a loop counter at all in python? :P
But it pollutes the module namespace! Pollution isn't beautiful! </mock rage>
 
Katenkyo
Katenkyo
@FryAmTheEggman practicality beats purity. ^^
 
FryAmTheEggman
FryAmTheEggman
How is having a value equal to 25 practical? :P
 
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