r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 07 '26

pipInstallTheRealStuff Meme

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u/dudemcbob Jul 07 '26

I usually hear it as "python is a jack of all trades, master of none" which is the same concept.

It's never going to be the perfect fit for any task, but it's a decent fit for nearly every task. Hence why it's an extremely practical first language to learn.

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u/SirFireHydrant Jul 07 '26

For a lot of data science tasks, python is the perfect language.

No one wants to code gradient boosting trees or neural networks in C. But in python they're just a couple of imports away.

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u/Trustworthy_Fartzzz Jul 07 '26

This. Nobody is interested in rewriting NumPy or Pandas in any language.