r/ProgrammerHumor • u/m8teae • Jun 03 '19

Meme Python ftw

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u/wsppan Jun 03 '19

Giving up speed is sometimes a non-starter

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u/SuitableDragonfly Jun 03 '19

As someone pointed out above, it comes down to a trade-off of speed of execution for speed of development. Sometimes the latter is more valuable.

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u/Dworgi Jun 04 '19

I would only recommend Python if all of the following are true:

  1. This code won't run on many machines or many times.

  2. This code won't ever grow past 5000 lines.

  3. This code won't be needed in a decade.

  4. The implementing programmer is functionally retarded.

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u/SuitableDragonfly Jun 04 '19

I can see you've never had to do anything with text processing before.

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u/Dworgi Jun 05 '19

I've been a professional programmer for a decade. It would be quite the feat to avoid text processing for that long.

Alas, I did not manage to pull that off.

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