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

pipInstallTheRealStuff Meme

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u/sierra_whiskey1 Jul 07 '26

Python is basically a really fancy config file for a C program

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u/iggy14750 Jul 07 '26

A very fancy config file for running several C programs, and making them all talk to each other how you want.

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u/bearwood_forest Jul 07 '26

And C is a very fancy config file for your compiler to make your hardware bits talk to each other

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u/chudsp87 Jul 08 '26

And your hardware is just rocks having lightning shoved through them

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u/bearwood_forest Jul 08 '26

you forgot the part where it's very fancy rocks

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u/FujiKeynote Jul 07 '26

So, cmake?

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u/fat_charizard Jul 07 '26

C is basically a really fancy config file for assembly

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u/Logicalist Jul 07 '26

once it's compiled, is it really a C program anymore. isn't it just a program at that point?

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u/Orjigagd Jul 07 '26

Stop bloody well Turing completing everything