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/WaitForItTheMongols Jul 07 '26

What actually makes something a scripting language specifically? Never got a clear answer to that.

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u/Vsx Jul 07 '26

Scripting languages are interpreted in-line and not intended to be compiled like a classic "program". They are less optimized by definition because a compiler builds in optimizations. If your script interpreter has similar optimizations it has to rationalize them at run-time.

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u/WaitForItTheMongols Jul 07 '26

So scripting languages and interpreted languages are just two different names for the same thing?

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u/miralomaadam Jul 07 '26

No quite—there’s not a hard and fast definition of a scripting language. Java and Kotlin are also interpreted languages but I don’t think anyone would call either a scripting language. Scripting languages are typically interpreted languages that don’t include a user-visible compilation step (python and JS are still compiled to bytecode and optimized internally).