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I agree.

Back in the day before enforcing code formatting via linting tools become commonplace, many programmers often ignore formatting at all and do whatever they please, mixing tabs and spaces in the same file, not indenting their code blocks, mixing camel case and snake case, and a whole lot of other formatting eyesores. One day Guido van Rossum decided enough is enough and created a programming language where such programmers are forced to behave, else their program wouldn't run. He named it Python because he often hiss at those annoying programmers during code reviews.

For real, you really can do anything there, sometimes sacrificing efficiency, but still.

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The goal for Python 3 was to be an all purpose language that the general population could use for their everyday computing tasks

Looking nice and upsetting people.

That’s the joke

It’s implying js isn’t a programming language because web stuff isn’t real programming

I think they meant javascript is to web dev as python is to software dev

They do share a significant commonality, though; they are both interpreted languages, rather than compiled. Sure, you can compile them, but they are meant to be run interpreted so you can quickly and easily tweak and change things and not have to wait for compilation to see the results. In that regard they are very comparable.

If you think that's bad, don't think about how many important communications in the world happen completely verbally.

Pretty much all online service APIs (Google APIs, Facebook and so on) out there are text-based.

Granted, JSON formatted text, but still absolutelly human readable text.

The reason for that is because it's agnostic of the machine architectures (stuff like endianess) on both sides.

The really crazy stuff in banking are the old binary protocols (like EDF) from the time when bandwidth was way less than now (so, the early 90s and earlier).

O.O

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What.

It's only JavaScript if it is from the ECMA region in Europe. Otherwise it's just sparkling java...

What I think he meant is that in JS every object is a reference or a pointer. This means that instead of the variable be the place in memory where the data is, the variable holds the address of where the data lives. This helps languages like JS and Python have variables that changes their types (you can assign a=true and later a=3 and everything will be fine). A non reference variable, as you can find in languages like C and Rust, is defined by its memory size statically, and the program can just pre-allocate a continuous block of memory that is enough for all the needed variables. This helps your cpu cache and access variables more efficiently. In reference types, memory can end up anywhere on your memory because it is allocated dynamically at runtime, so you access whatever memory that is free and available at the moment. Also the extra step of following a pointer just to get to a block containing a boolean (literally just one bit of memory) compounds and adds up to be actually noticeable in long calculations.

A language reference (a manual). It’s not a language feature.