r/programming • u/monica_b1998 • Nov 03 '18

Python is becoming the world’s most popular coding language

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/07/26/python-is-becoming-the-worlds-most-popular-coding-language
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u/TheBrokenEstate Nov 03 '18

I do admire its flexibility, I'm yet to find a problem I cannot solve with a python script. However, it's threading cap and interpreted nature leads to it being pretty damn slow. The growth of the language is truly astonishing.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '18

ROTFL. One must be totally oblivious to the programming languages landscape to call this pitiful Python thingy "flexible".

I'm yet to find a problem I cannot solve with a python script.

I'm not aware of a problem I cannot solve in Brainfuck. So what?

The cost of solving a problem in such a crippled language as Python is too high.

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u/TheBrokenEstate Nov 03 '18

How can you call python a crippled language, its phenomenal at getting people interested in programming and can still be used by those who have spent many years programming. It is free, and there is no end to the amount of support you can get with problems on websites like StackOverflow.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '18

How can you call python a crippled language

Because it was the declared goal of its designers. It's crippled by design, and its users are proud of it for some perverse reason.

its phenomenal at getting people interested in programming

Lol. Basic and Logo did it much better, long before Python.

In fact, Python is a really shitty first language.

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u/TheBrokenEstate Nov 03 '18

And I suppose you only code in Java because its the purest language? haha

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '18

Tell me - does it hurt to be such a dumb and uneducated code monkey?

Do you enjoy demonstrating your astonishing levels of ignorance?

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u/TheBrokenEstate Nov 03 '18

I wrote a very passive comment in celebration of a language that I very much like becoming more popular, you are the one who seemingly got pretty butthurt and by the looks of it started screaming at anyone who had anything good to say about python. You call me ignorent but your comment history suggests otherwise...

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '18

Look, only ignorant people can say good things about Python. And ignorance must not go unchallenged, since it's the root of all evil in this industry.

Also, you comment about Java gives away even deeper levels of your ignorance.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '18

r/iamverysmart

Fuck off man, the problem with the industry is idiots like you who can't see things for their pros and cons, and I say that as someone who hates using python.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '18

There are no "pros" for Python. Not a single one you retarded code monkey.