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also I just realized that Brazil did NOT make a programming language entirely in Spanish and call it "Si" and that my professor was making a joke about C... god damn it

this post is probably too nieche but I feel like Lemmy is nerdy enough that enough people will get it lol

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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 58 points 4 days ago

Brazil did NOT make a programming language entirely in Spanish

Because we speak fucking portuguese

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Maybe if we start saying Americans speak Americanese they'll get the memo lmao

[-] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 days ago

Probably would be even more effective to say they speak British.

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Also they did create LUA

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[-] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

this post is probably too nieche

yep. this post is too nietzsche

[-] guillem@aussie.zone 67 points 5 days ago

Why would Brazil choose Spanish?

[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 32 points 4 days ago

Brazil is a known Mexican Country, obviously they speak Spanish

[-] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 18 points 4 days ago

Cuz Brazil speaks Spanish, duh. Not every country has English as their language, dummy

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 days ago

I'll hate on python (or any dynamically typed lang) as much as the next guy, but let's not be language snobs

[-] cooligula@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 days ago

Why would you hate on it? It has its usecases. You won't build an OS in Python, but I'd much rather do data processing in Python than in C

[-] buttnugget@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Maybe I’ll build an OS in Python just for the fun of it! Haha

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[-] QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

i didn't say anything negative about it, I like both languages (though python is way easier). i was just stoned and made an observation

[-] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 52 points 5 days ago

C is the old carpenter, who can drive in nails with three strikes of the hammer and never forgets his tools.

C# is his friend who just uses power tools instead. He is fine too. He goes home early whenever he can.

Python is the new guy at work who thinks he's super smart. He actually can do the job really well, but for some reason nobody likes him all that much.

Javascript is the boss's son who got the job since he agreed to stay off pills but he does not. He is useful to be friendly with, maybe, but avoid him any day that you can. Typescript is his weird fiancée. She is significantly less stupid but much more rarely useful, and also best avoided.

Go and Rust are tight-knit friends who get shit done. They are extremely capable but also not friendly, they tend not to talk much.

Clojure does mushrooms on weekends, and seems to believe he has key insights the rest of the crew is too dim to understand, but he also makes frequent simple mistakes on the job and forgets things. Also avoid.

Java only has the job because he's known the boss since they were kids. He was never that good, but now he is old, and frequently drunk. Avoid at all costs.

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 23 points 5 days ago

COBOL handles the books because no one else can understand the system and it's too much work to change after 40 years

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Rust is that one rare type of guy who refuses to round measurements so you end up with "the drawer is 28.34646 inches tall."

Clojure one is perfect lmao.

[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago

C is the old carpenter with leaky memory with heavy undiagnosed autism, who constantly cracks demented jokes like "Missing } at end of file".

He's so mentally not there in fact, that if you don't specifically tell him to return to you after finishing the job, he will neither figure out what he's supposed to do, nor will he tell you what went wrong, but instead he will happily jump somewhere else, halucinate commands from the structure of the walls and start doing whatever the voices tell him to do.

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[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 25 points 4 days ago

To start with Brazil speaks Portuguese not Spanish

[-] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

I try to avoid python for two main reasons. While coding, white spaces. Who thought that was a good idea? While using, shared dependancies, again who thought thay was a good idea? I have to use pipx or manually make a venv otherwise python scripts start breaking each other. May as well just package it with its own dependancies from the get go.

[-] Kacarott@aussie.zone 24 points 4 days ago

I genuinely do not understand the problem with white spaces that people seem to have. Literally any well formatted code will use whitespace for indentation.

I imagine that if python syntax was the norm and then a C-style syntax language appeared, the same group of people would be complaining "curly brackets? Who thought that was a good idea?"

[-] pupbiru@aussie.zone 6 points 4 days ago

right? like if white space weren’t required, how would you format your code differently? arbitrary white space all over the place? no indentation? that is some spicy garbage code

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[-] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 4 days ago

These uh..aren't issues you need to think about much.

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[-] edinbruh@feddit.it 19 points 4 days ago

I'll be honest, I think modern python is cool. You just need to accept that it has some limitations by design, but they mostly makes sense for its purpose.

It's true that the type system is optional, but it gets more and more expressive with every version, it's honestly quite cool. I wish Pylance were a bit smarter though, it sometimes fails to infer sum types in if-else statements.

After a couple large-ish personal projects I have concluded that the problem of python isn't the language, but the users.

On the other hand, C's design is barren. Sure, it works, it does the thing, it gives you very low level control. But there is nothing of note in the design, if not some quirks of the specifications. Being devoid of innovation is its strength and weakness.

[-] realitista@lemmus.org 14 points 4 days ago

As someone who studied C exclusively in school and used it for the majority of programming projects I had in the real world, coming to Python now is like moving from a kit car like a Caterham to a Mercedes S class.

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[-] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago
[-] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 9 points 4 days ago

That's because it's a stupid take. Believing brazil named a programming language after a Spanish word is pretty embarrassing too but I guess English speakers do that constantly.

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[-] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

If you can eat it, then it's edible.

Change my pythonic mind.

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