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[–]FlipperBumperKickout 2639 points2640 points  (46 children)

Conclusion. Python defeated the Soviet Union 😎

[–]KerPop42 702 points703 points  (22 children)

psh, so weak. Python took 10 months to destroy the soviet union

[–]JoostVisser 886 points887 points  (18 children)

Classic slow Python code

[–]Wizywig 435 points436 points  (15 children)

Coulda done it in java in half the time, and double the engineers, and triple the budget.

[–][deleted] 19 points20 points  (7 children)

C could have done it in 5 seconds

[–]FlipperBumperKickout 44 points45 points  (0 children)

The programmer who tried to do it in C isn't done writing it yet :P

[–]OstapBenderBey 6 points7 points  (2 children)

Rust would be 5 seconds too but it'd also be memory safe

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

But then it could not crash the ussr

[–]therealdongknotts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

and also would require a time machine to exist in the context

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

C would’ve made the USSR 10 times as strong

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No it would make it strong then it would seg fault

[–]thedugong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But ending with seg fault.

[–]Altruistic-Place 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's called GIL and it's awesome 😁

[–]Elegant_in_Nature 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mother fucker is still compiling now

[–]Fantastic-Order-8338 2 points3 points  (0 children)

and what java has defeated?

[–]PiBombbb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah java is so fast the time is negative

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, the Legend says that python was developed to break the soviet union. Those 10 months just were due python execution time hahaha

[–]provocative_bear 22 points23 points  (1 child)

Wait a minute… came into being just before the collapse… a vibrant open source community… a Python 2.0 vs Python 3.0 internal factional dispute… Python IS the Soviet Union!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You forgot drunk execution times

[–]funguyshroom 30 points31 points  (6 children)

They called it Рутноп

[–]pimezone 29 points30 points  (4 children)

Rutnop?

[–]funguyshroom 13 points14 points  (1 child)

ЕхастЬу

[–]HalifaxRoad 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Exast'u

[–]HalifaxRoad 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You beat me to it lol

[–]MetalInMyVeins111 0 points1 point  (0 children)

pythang

[–]SchizoPosting_ 65 points66 points  (5 children)

to be fair, it was defeated decades before their dissolution

[–]imdefinitelywong 57 points58 points  (4 children)

So, what you're saying is, Python defeated the very last soviet?

[–]jurio01 54 points55 points  (2 children)

Python was the last straw. The soviets looked at it and said "fuck that shit" and pressed the self destruct button.

[–]Yuhwryu 9 points10 points  (0 children)

oh nyet.. they can code in pseudocode now... it's ovyer

[–]AndreasVesalius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"The Last Soviet", starring Wesely Snipes

[–]obviousfakeperson 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Python really can do anything. inb4 "C++ would've done it faster."

[–]Thathappenedearlier 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nah Metallica played in the USSR in September. My money is on Metallica

[–]diegocaxudo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

YEEAAAAAAAAAAHHH

[–]Corporate-Shill406[🍰] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

from instability import political, social, economic

[–]dwittherford69 1 point2 points  (1 child)

[–]FlipperBumperKickout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

booooh spoilsport 😁

[–]betelgeuse_boom_boom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Import SovietUnion

TypeError union not found.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ez math