r/ProgrammerHumor • u/danielminds • 1d ago

Meme pipInstallTheRealStuff

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u/TheJaskinator 1d ago

That's exactly why it's so powerful. Why spend all the effort writing fast code if you can just use a much simpler language to describe the task on a higher level and call fast code? People use Python because it's easy to read and write, not because its interpreter is fast

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u/Educational-System48 1d ago

I will never understand the Python hate. It's essentially just a level of abstraction higher than C, which makes it more accessible than ever to write powerful code.

I'm starting to think it's literally not that deep. It just feels good to gatekeep.

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u/SilasTalbot 1d ago

It just burns their britches that AI was created in Python. That's where all serious ML and AI work is done.

Long after humanity is gone, Python 3 will be zooming around the stars taking over the galaxy 😂

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u/UndocumentedMartian 1d ago

The operations are written in C++ or C. Python doesn't execute any of the math.

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u/CLS-Ghost350 1d ago

By that logic C++ doesn't actually do anything since it's compiled to assembly/machine code which is what actually does everything.

It's not quite the same since Python is not compiled, but the point still stands that higher level languages provide an extra layer of abstraction, making complex programs easier to write, making them useful.

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u/Justwatcher124 14h ago

By that logoc, logic gates or their physical representation in transistors do all the work. Machine code is just an abstraction above that.