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Re:No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-in... by reificator on Thursday February 06, 2020 @10:14PM (#22262930)

> And then after two rounds of interviews they rejected me because apparently 'cat error.log | grep 'ERROR:' | wc -l' is not how real programmers find error count, but write python programs every single time they face such a problem.

bulletsDodged += 1

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Re:No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-in... by somebodythere on Thursday February 06, 2020 @11:35PM (#22263247)

Real programmers would write bulletsDodged++;

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Re:No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-in... by reificator on Thursday February 06, 2020 @11:52PM (#22263326)

https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.2.0/complement-design-faq.html#w...?

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Re:No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-in... by bagacrap on Friday February 07, 2020 @12:05AM (#22263386)

our style guide dictates ++bulletsDodged;

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Re:No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-in... by ErikAugust on Friday February 07, 2020 @12:47AM (#22263527)

Well, bulletsDodged++ and ++bulletsDodged mean different things in most languages. It ain't just a matter of style. :)

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Re:No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-in... by fhars on Friday February 07, 2020 @03:32AM (#22264172)

Like C++ gives you the current value of C and then increments it for some future use.

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Re:No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-in... by reificator on Friday February 07, 2020 @02:28AM (#22263905)

But preferring one over the other is.

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Re:No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-in... by philpem on Friday February 07, 2020 @03:58AM (#22264277)

Thing is, that's not valid Python - but the OP's version is ;-)

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Re:No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-in... by gdy on Friday February 07, 2020 @06:28PM (#22272309)

Corollary: Python programmers are not real.

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Re:No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-in... by philpem on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @11:43AM (#22299857)

Descartes: I hiss therefore I am... ;)

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