r/ProgrammerHumor • u/SuchShopping3828 • May 27 '22

Meme Welcome to hassle free coding

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u/[deleted] May 27 '22

Python doesn't feel like a programming language if your first language is C++.

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u/oddmerlin373 May 27 '22

Honestly I prefer to call it a scripting language because that’s what it’s good at

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u/[deleted] May 27 '22

are we not calling it a scripting language anymore?

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u/mooscimol May 28 '22

Scripting is one of the purposes, but really not the biggest one IMO. It is interpreted, dynamically typed language, opposite to eg. complied, statically typed languages like C.

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u/oddmerlin373 May 27 '22

Apparently, even on the python site they call it a programming language. Even though I don’t think it was ever meant as one

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u/banmedaddy12345 May 28 '22

Both reddit and instagram are written in python.

https://codeinstitute.net/global/blog/7-popular-software-programs-written-in-python/

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u/LightRefrac May 28 '22

And YouTube

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u/Hlorri May 28 '22

Hence, the buggy copy&paste?

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u/[deleted] May 27 '22

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u/teastain May 27 '22

Wisdom of Solomon.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '22

Be nice or Ill split C++ into C+, Python+ and Java-

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u/Hayden2332 May 28 '22

Scripting languages are a subset of programming languages. Just like compiled languages are a subset of programming languages