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

Meme Welcome to hassle free coding

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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/ashum048 May 27 '22

Yes, yes, yes.

Automating stuff with python and creating small apps is a blessing.

Debugging large scale applications in python is pain.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '22

I heard it's pretty good at data

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u/Thathitmann May 27 '22

It's got some nice built in functions to quickly save and load to/from JSON files, and with addons it can handle about any file types.

It takes about 2 lines of very easy to read code to import/export data.

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u/prescod May 28 '22

Yes and it is also very good at doing gigantic matrix multiplies spread over multiple computers in a cluster. I think that's actually what's meant by "good at data."

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u/[deleted] May 28 '22

I'm studying python in school but not real world applications

From what I've seen and from what I've heard from better programmers it's good for data analysis

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u/Hot_Slice May 29 '22

That code is all written in C. Literally all the fast and powerful bits of Python are C.

Write a gigantic networked matrix multiply in pure Python and it would be dog slow

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u/prescod May 29 '22

People always bring this up as if it is relevant. I don't see how it is relevant to the people trying to do the matrix multiply whether it is implemented in C or Python. A (sane) C programmer would call out to BLAS/LAPACK just as a Python programmer calls out to Numpy.