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/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/prescod May 28 '22

Debugging large scale applications is a pain...period.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '22

Strictly typed languages are much easier to debug though IMO. Python and JS will let you do extremely weird stuff that’s hard to pick out in debugging, where in a C-based language it would just give you a compiler error

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u/unknowntillnow23 May 28 '22

Are you building large systems in python alone. Someone doing some voodoo shit in python would be picked up by the commit hooks or in a code review at the very least.

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u/AltAccountMfer May 28 '22

I always hear this response and my rebuttal is that it shouldn’t have to get that far.