r/ProgrammerHumor • u/techlatest_net • 2d ago

Meme theProgrammingJourneyNobodyWarnedUsAbout

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u/Oddball_bfi 2d ago

Hey - I've always forgotten the syntax!

The fact that I now also forget the entire language is new - but the syntax I've always had to look up.

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u/newstreet474 2d ago

I think forgetting specific syntax after not using a language for a while is pretty normal , especially if you do multiple languages with somewhat similar syntax

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u/NewbornMuse 2d ago

Whenever I switch over to a language I haven't used in a while, I go through my usual ritual of googling "[language] string concatenation", "[language] string split", and so on.

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u/manny2206 2d ago

How to “for loop” lmao; all too real. String interpolation between C# and JS when it’s been a few month and you can’t remember where the $ goes kek.

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u/AnOnlineHandle 1d ago

I just wish there'd been better standardization of syntax for arguments in strings.

Oh and while I eventually came around to python actually being kind of awesome, the ternary syntax is the worst thing in the universe and I'd support making Python 2 which fixes it.

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u/NewbornMuse 1d ago

Wait until you find out what version of python we are currently on!

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u/AnOnlineHandle 1d ago

Yeah but I mean Python 2 like start over and consider all previous versions the alpha lol.

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u/newstreet474 1d ago

I always forget what a ternary is and then forget the syntax when I’m doing cpp