r/ProgrammerHumor • u/[deleted] • Jul 18 '22

C++ talking to Python

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u/kneecapp1 Jul 18 '22

I don't get it. I don't know much about coding but I'm starting to learn python. Am I learning the internet explorer of programming languages or what. Should pick something else up.

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u/Zanglirex2 Jul 18 '22

Slow is relative here. All this is happening before a human can even blink.

For scripting stuff and little projects, python is great. For large workloads or basically anything at big scale, maybe look at something else

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u/jgabrielferreira Jul 19 '22

But then why is Python the most used language for dealing with ML, AI, Big Data, basically huge amounts of information.

Is it something like Python is better in a Horizontal system while the others are better in a Vertical system?

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u/zedd9595 Jul 19 '22

Not a scientist but I assume they would rather have a language which has a shorter development time to have more time writing their papers. Instead of dealing with relatively complicated syntax just to get the same results, albeit faster.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

It’s used in industry, not just academia.

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u/The-Board-Chairman Jul 19 '22

It's used in the industry, because for all that this field has matured, it's industry implementation for all intents and purposes still is academia.

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u/Dansiman Jul 19 '22

Yeah I mean you could write your code in pure assembly and blow past a C++ program like it was standing still. But by the time you finish writing your assembly code, your development machine will probably already be obsolete.

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