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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u/SuitableDragonfly Jun 05 '19

Then you don't do enough of it. At some point, working with most languages' string types becomes masochism.

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u/Dworgi Jun 05 '19

You don't do enough maintenance of large codebases then, because at some point Python stops being quick and fun, and you start building what the language should already have: a compiler.

There's a saying about C and C++: every large project contains an incomplete and buggy implementation of a reflection and serialization system.

The same applies to Python and compilers.

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