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Discussion on: What are the most common mistakes you make as a programmer?

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Austin S. Hemmelgarn

Forgetting basic syntax, especially for conditionals. I jump between languages quite regularly, and it's pretty normal for me to do things like forget colons in Python or semicolons in JS. About 90% of the time I run into a syntax error or odd behavior caused by incorrect syntax, it's a case like this where I forgot literally a single character.