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A week of fprintfs has me wanting to code rust next week (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by stsquad@lemmy.ml to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I shouldn’t need to do unit tests for quick one off scripts

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Shouldn't be forgetting for one off scripts either, if that's the logic you want to go with.

The tool exists, either you do it or you don't and end up getting an error until the interpreter hits that line. It's just the nature of being compiled at runtime.

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

“Ohh, I got all these numbers I want to crunch using numpy or pandas and plot it using matplotlib. Hold on, I just need to write unit tests first.”

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well. Yeah. That's test-driven development. It's a very good practice.

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

TDD only works well if the problem is clearly specified before the first line of code has been written, which is rarely the case when I need Python for something.