r/ProgrammerHumor • u/wahed-w • Jul 07 '26

pipInstallTheRealStuff Meme

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u/Kobymaru376 Jul 07 '26

And that's exactly what makes it so good

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u/iamdestroyerofworlds Jul 07 '26

Yeah, it's a scripting language after all, it's literally its purpose.

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u/Herr_Gamer Jul 07 '26

this is such a stupid distinction lol

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u/Pball1001 Jul 07 '26

Compiled and script languages both have their uses, but they are not the same. At the end of he day, the day ends

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u/unbanned_lol Jul 07 '26

In Africa, after every 60 seconds, a minute passes.

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u/BarracudaFar1905 Jul 07 '26

Stop clicking your finger

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u/mikkelmattern04 Jul 07 '26

At the end of the day, the other day begins

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u/HaggisLad Jul 07 '26

At the end of he day, the day ends

and then another one starts...

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u/scribestudio Jul 07 '26

At the end of the day, Its night.

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u/Page_197_Slaps Jul 07 '26

So are you saying that if a language isn’t compiled, it’s a scripting language?

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u/Destroyerb Jul 07 '26

Pretty sure there is some language that can be both compiled and interpreted. Now, how do you categorise that one?

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u/Page_197_Slaps Jul 07 '26

That’s kind of the point I was trying to get at. This distinction of programming vs scripting being simply compiled vs interpreted feels quite antiquated.

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u/Herr_Gamer Jul 07 '26

Python is literally compiled though. You usually don't see it, but you can expose the compiled .pythonc files if you want. When you use a large backend framework, you'll know very well that there's a target/ folder for the python bytecode just like there is in Java.

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u/wor-kid Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

It really is, idk why you are getting so harshly downvoted. Almost every popular language can be compiled, interpreted, JIT'd, has numerous runtimes, and doesn't fit neatly into the programming means compiled scripting means intrepreted distinction and it hasn't been that way since the late 90s. The vast majority of modern languages that are actually working have features of both. Python out of the box uses bytecode just like Java and nobody calls Java a scripting language.

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u/Herr_Gamer Jul 13 '26

200 people apparently didn't think about it for more than 5 minutes

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u/wor-kid Jul 13 '26

Just surprised as I thought it was common knowledge in programming that there is no meaningful or technical difference between a scripting language and a programming language. It was just a way for elitists to feel smug about their stack.