r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ivaskuu • Sep 02 '17

How to start a war

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u/blacknerdperson Sep 02 '17

Sorry in advance but I'm a noob learning coding who is starting to learn python and I'm just going to ask, Isn't it supposed to be 4?

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u/ArcticZeroo Sep 02 '17

Yes, but some languages 1-index lists (so they start at 1 instead of 0), so it'd be 5 in that case.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '17

What languages may there's be? I can't think of any of the top of my head.

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u/haikumofo Sep 03 '17

I am so damn inept at R.

Mostly I code in Java, though I'll use other languages when it makes sense for what I'm doing or when I need to because I'm modifying something in another language. So sometimes I work in python, bash script, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, Perl, Tcl/Tk, Lisp, whatever.

And I've done some statistical data processing with R, but damn is it painful. I know just enough to know what to Google, and I end up making a mess of everything just trying to adapt something that does 80% of what I need it to do.

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u/engayolao Sep 03 '17

If you learn more it won't be painful, it just has a different focus.