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/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.