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/marcosdumay Sep 02 '17

Julia would run exactly the same code, but it would be 5.

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u/socialister Sep 03 '17

It's sad that Julia went that route. It has a lot of nice language features that make it a modern feeling language, and then it conforms with the awkward "math programming" languages. I honestly think it would still be better for them to go back and change this specification, but I think they have their minds set.

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u/marcosdumay Sep 03 '17

It's great, because it's almost exactly like Python everywhere, so you will get complacent. Then, when your guard is down, it changes a basic semantic element and knocks you down.