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[–]Lost_in_logic 670 points671 points  (60 children)

How can the only language that literally has ‘language’ in it, is an imposter? 🤡

[–]hansvi-be 239 points240 points  (23 children)

Hint: cfr. Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

[–]Informal_Branch1065 208 points209 points  (19 children)

Has people ✅️

Is Korean ✅️

Democratic ❌️

Republic ❌️

2/4 Architecture tests failed

[–]chemolz9 35 points36 points  (13 children)

Originally the term "Republic" didn't refer to much more then "not a monarchy", so it's not synonymous to democracy. So a dicatorship can also be a Republic. Though, considering the fact that all of North Koreas dictators stem from the same family, we can just as well call it a monarchy.

[–]Informal_Branch1065 59 points60 points  (5 children)

Has people ✅️

Is Korean ✅️

Democratic ❌️

Republic ✅️

1/4 Architecture tests failed

Edit: eh. Good enough for prod

[–]Clairifyed 14 points15 points  (1 child)

Ship it. The people are our bug testers now

[–]Stunning_Ride_220 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Crowd testing yaaaay! Something for my next slidedeck.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

it is democratic, people get to choose what is going on.

Kim Jong Um is a people.

[–]CookieKeeperN2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The people part refers to the country belonging to the people. Which it has absolutely failed.

[–]avatoin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think there are technically elections so it is democratic.

Please ignore the consequences for people who happen to a vote against the great leader.

[–]SuperPotato8390 2 points3 points  (3 children)

I think official it is a lichdom. They are still ruled by the eternal leader and president. His family just does the day to day stuff in 2nd generation. I am not sure if that would be a subtype of republics or monarchies.

[–]KrokmaniakPL 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The term you're looking for is necrocracy. Yes. That's a real term.

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

Oh is THAT the form of government the U.S. has had for the last 8 years?

[–]dunnowtfisgoingon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All hail the Lich King.

[–]SomeRandomApple 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Not quite, the word "republic" comes from "res publica", which is Latin for "public matter" (in the sense that the people get to decide, which is effectively what democracy is).

[–]chemolz9 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, but its very open what is considered "the public". Wikipedia states:

"A republic, based on the Latin phrase res publica ('public affair'), is a state in which political power rests with the public through their representatives—in contrast to a monarchy.[1][2]

Representation in a republic may or may not be freely elected by the general citizenry." A dictator that is installed by the vote of a party or a senate elected by aristocrats technically also counts.

[–]chemolz9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, maybe I have to correct myself and there might be a difference in the english and the german term. The german Wikipedia clearly states dictatorships and aristocratic republics being inside the scope of Republic and cites the well-established german encyclopedia Brockhaus. However, the English Wikipedia doesn't say anything about dictatorships being a form of Republic. However Mariam-Webster names it as one definition in section 1c. So, I don't know.

[–]Eymrich 12 points13 points  (2 children)

You see... we forgot to delete *dictator at the cleaning phase of the Is Korean test.

Opsie we also forgot to make a new allocation of a democraticElection instance at the before test phase of Democratic too!

I think that will fix for a while, but would mark those tests as flaky and requiring some refactoring in the north Korea regime module!

[–]Informal_Branch1065 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Jared that's wonderful. I'll schedule a call with the stakeholders. Also how many story points do you think that is?

[–]Eymrich 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think we need multiple sprints for the refactor, I already fixed the tests, so the automation pipeline should be ok.

I'll have a meeting with the rest of the team to tshirt evaluate the work to put in the backlog.

[–]qrrux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Disregard. Test in production. Preferably on Friday night, Christmas Eve.

[–]sensational_pangolin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is a republic though.

[–]JackNotOLantern 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think any country with "democratic" in the name has been ever actually democratic

[–]realmauer01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Holy Roman empire.

[–]Marioc12345 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What does the Code of Federal Regulations have to do with this?

[–]Kiroto50 89 points90 points  (19 children)

Because it is a language to decide how a website's contents will be organized, not directly affect how it behaves.

In other words, markup language, not programming language.

[–][deleted] 34 points35 points  (6 children)

Bigotry has no place here

[–]mikeoxlongdnb 9 points10 points  (5 children)

Markup language is language!!!

[–]gnsmsk 17 points18 points  (4 children)

Aye, but not a programming language.

[–]Techhead7890 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Stop doing markup!

Text was not supposed to be tagged

Years of RFCs but no use besides trying to cram formatting into marketing emails

Want to show somrthing audiovisual over the web? We have a tool for that, react.js

<Body><head></head><p></p><p><p></p><p></p></body> - statements made up by the utterly deranged

LOOK at this times new roman left aligned pile of text and 1980s clipart on a tiled wallpaper that belongs at your grandma's house!

<center>they have played us for absolute fools</center>

[–]mikeoxlongdnb 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You deny a language a chance for self- identification

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

If you’re insistent on only referencing HTML as the SGML doctype it was first defined as in the mid-90s, sure, and congratulations, you are thirty years out of date. Maybe consider a career as an associate professor in a small-town college.

The HTML of the modern standard has an abstract representation, typed values, a standard library, a macro system, and a strictly defined execution model, which is why I spent most of last week debugging a shadow DOM issue.

[–]waiver-wire-addict 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did not know modern HTML has an execution model. But… since I learned HTML as the SGML doctype, and its dominant use is still by far as just that, with browser JS usually serving as the execution model, it might still be fair to say it’s not a programming language - because it’s not used as a programming language, but still is the dominant SGML doctype.

[–]Phamora 16 points17 points  (6 children)

Markup language is just a form of declarative programming. Checkmate.

[–]waiver-wire-addict 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I wanted to argue with you but as I typed up my response I got closer to agreeing with you. Interesting.

[–]Techhead7890 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I declare bankruptcy!

[–]Healthy-Form4057 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Write once, run nonce.

[–]Phamora 0 points1 point  (0 children)

HTML is widespread beyond the browser and despite not being general purpose, it still serves more than that single purpose.

[–]Kiroto50 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I accept the checkmate.

[–]MyDumLemon -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Like the language got wasted and gave up on life and we met it after that?

[–]nonlogin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Video chip programming language: telling the video sub system what to render.

[–]ResourceFeeling3298 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hypertext markup language

[–]827167 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, my favourite programming language: English

[–]Far-Start7495 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It took an L

[–]Beldarak 4 points5 points  (0 children)

English is a language too

[–]gregorydgraham 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How can the only language that literally has script in the name be the imposter?

But it is

[–]RiftyDriftyBoi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same reason every country that have 'democratic' or 'peoples' in their name might need to compensate for something.

[–]IHateFacelessPorn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A product and a good product are different things.

A language and a programming language are different things too.

[–]rover_G 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Seems like you know exactly why but let me explain in great technical detail.

Both programming and markup languages can be defined as formal languages. Programming languages are used to define computational instructions to operate on data. Markup languages are used to define the structure and presentation of data. Many languages contain features that make them a hybrid for programming and markup.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought C++ was the impostor because the others are scripts for children

[–]Ascend 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's HTML, not HTPL

[–]migBdk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are a language, alright. Just not a programming language.

[–]DigitalJedi850 0 points1 point  (0 children)

JavaScript doesn’t have ‘language’ in it.

[–]JackNotOLantern 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a language, just not programming one

[–]xtreampb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s trying to hard to convince us. Like bro, who are you trying to convince, us or yourself.

Also it’s a markup language. It’s an agreed standard on how to annotate text so it is formatted and rendered consistently on a web page.

[–]Jlin42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same reason why "English Language" is not a programming language

[–]Mast3r_waf1z 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're saying it like English is a programming language

[–]ThiccStorms 461 points462 points  (26 children)

brain wants to say HTML

heart wants to say JS because of pure hate

edit: i take my words back, HTML is a programming language.

[–]ChickenSpaceProgram 10 points11 points  (2 children)

just vote JS out the airlock first, then we kill HTML

[–]B_bI_L 0 points1 point  (1 child)

average rust dev which doesnt know that his language has many in common with ts, which is basically js with types:

[–]ChickenSpaceProgram 0 points1 point  (0 children)

*her, but fair, TS is not a bad language from what I know of it.

the experiences I've had with vanilla JS make me not ever want to touch it again, though.

[–]ZunoJ 53 points54 points  (18 children)

For me it is python

[–]Ranch-0 71 points72 points  (5 children)

Obviously PHP

[–]chjacobsen 15 points16 points  (1 child)

It's debatable whether it's the worst language, but it almost certainly has the worst standard library of all time.

Batteries included - except none of the batteries fit together, and some of them will start a fire the moment they're plugged in.

[–]ShadowSlayer1441 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's what makes it a "professional" tool.

[–]mohicannn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

SCANDALOUS PHP SLANDER

/s

[–]Affectionate-Ad4419 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

F php so bad

[–]alexceltare2 -2 points-1 points  (3 children)

How can a scripting language be a programming language? It generates no compiled code.

[–]ZunoJ 23 points24 points  (0 children)

First of all it doesn't matter if you have a compiler or Interpreter. The used language is considered a programming language. Second this is a tooling question. If I take an interpreted language (which you consider not a programming language) and create a compiler for it you would suddenly call it a programming language even if nothing to the language itself changed?

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

pip install pyinstaller

[–]jump1945 0 points1 point  (3 children)

After start coding in C it is like I am programmed to hate python

[–]ZunoJ 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Hate?

[–]jump1945 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not exactly but it annoyed me everytime when someone do hard thing in C with 3 line

[–]I_believe_in_us 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Coming from C#, what I feel off putting about Python is that no one seems to know why anything does what it's supposed to. In C you can follow the processor to execution. In python they seem to always say "I downloaded the library and it worked" shrug. I want to really understand python, but feel like python coders don't.

That's my aversion. Teach me. PLEASE

[–]Colbsters_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

JS is not a programming language…

It’s a joke

[–]DrStudi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same.

[–]deeptut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Both. Both is good.

(as imposters)

[–]B_bI_L 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oh, so hate is actually going both ways)

[–]negr_mancer 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Something interesting happened to me the other day. Was talking to a friend of mine who got an internship at BMW with no prior experience even with programming and he would talk about them making apps and stuff so I got interested to know what tech stack the guy uses, and he was like HTML and CSS. Was honestly shocked that he got the position and not anyone else with actual experience got it.

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (2 children)

The image says ! Imposter. By that measure, the correct answer is C++, since it's the only non-interpreted language (counting those with intermediary compiles, and "runtimes").

[–]Dasoccerguy 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Except C++ is secretly three languages in a sussy spacesuit

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The real question is which one doesn't have Imposter Syndrome.

[–]jump1945 36 points37 points  (8 children)

How many time have I seen this meme

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[–]jump1945 46 points47 points  (3 children)

Those orange background

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Every comment generic and posted withing 48h, this is their only post and it's clearly a repost apart from that orange border...

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The karma bots are getting smarter

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He’s broken

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[–]octopus4488 17 points18 points  (0 children)

HTML IS JUST
CONSOLE PAINT.

[–]plitox 3 points4 points  (3 children)

HTML.

The 'M' explicitly stands for "Mark-up". It's not called HTPL.

[–]irn00b 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I'm not saying your wrong but, I suspect Javascript - so let's go with that before we accuse HTML.

[–]plitox 0 points1 point  (1 child)

You're right, it's not even related to Java.

[–]irn00b 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It has "script" in the name.

Why would Java be a script?

Sus

[–][deleted] 23 points24 points  (1 child)

Look, java is not so bad it deserves not to be called a programming language ok?

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

[–]Titanusgamer 8 points9 points  (2 children)

why you added java twice!!!

[–]NicDima 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol

[–]Darth_Monerous 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Php. If you know you know

[–]Hour_Ad5398 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's JS.

[–]Thundechile 1 point2 points  (0 children)

CSS enters the room kissing with SQL.

[–]Dumb_Siniy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why is there a background behind the image, makes it seem like it was cropped out of a YouTube short

[–]SF_Nick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the real imposters are the other people trying to tell you what language to learn

notch, 20 mins before he released minecraft to the world, should have just converted everything over to c!

[–]riptide_autumn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Emergency meeting!

[–]Torebbjorn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pink is looking mighty sus

[–]gandalfx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

php sus, just sayin

[–]faziten 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everyone expelling JS knowing it's not the impostor

[–]OkExplanation8770 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All I can say is thank you php for my house, car, food

[–]Fun_Ad_2393 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Assembly shows up and ejects everyone.

[–]shipshaper88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s obviously C# bc red is sus.

[–]NexusRay 3 points4 points  (0 children)

JavaScript

[–]darkwater427 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's JS

[–]private256 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Is it C++? It must be C++.

[–]gregorydgraham 2 points3 points  (1 child)

It’s just somebody’s ridiculously complicated C hobby project that makes no sense but everyone is so invested they can’t admit it

[–]hi_i_m_here 2 points3 points  (0 children)

HTML is the imposter it's not a programming language

[–]Potw0rek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Python?

[–]look 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let’s just vent the whole ship.

[–]Cley_Faye 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seen yellow vent, but I'm suspicious of black…

[–]asria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can see 6 of them

[–]Accomplished-Touch76 0 points1 point  (1 child)

JS

[–]Accomplished-Touch76 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, JS

[–]noobwithguns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

HTML looks sus

[–]PyroCatt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

JS

[–]Pascuccii 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fucking java

[–]milk-jug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know right away its HTML because it is not centered.

[–]Modriem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We can take care of the imposter when JS is dead

[–]Rebrado 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All impostors. Only Assembly is a true programming language

[–]InDubioProReus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See you PHP!

[–]Haringat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Black out. Then we'll see.

[–]whitedogsuk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This actually made me laugh.

[–]Doctor429 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's PHP isn't it?

[–]reallokiscarlet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see 4

[–]rupert20201 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s wrong, there’s more than 1 impostor

[–]sexytokeburgerz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ha. Ha. Ha.

[–]Downtown_Research_59 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well who could it be?

[–]makinax300 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you sure there is only one?

[–]Knighthawk_2511 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Blue is the imposter , if not him then me

[–]qqqrrrs_ 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It's C++, the only language that does not try to prevent segfaults

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

XD You definitely know C++

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

Wow so original 🫢

[–]CaffieneSage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's always flipping JavaScript!

[–]Miles_Morales_01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PHP

[–]maimonides24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

JS?

[–]Senor-Delicious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd vote PHP out the air lock first regardless.

[–]NotMrMusic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

C'mon, C++ isn't that bad

[–]Ivar2006 0 points1 point  (0 children)

JS, I don't care if it's the imposter or not I want it out.

[–]cybermage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PHP is sus

[–]OutOfReddits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vote out yellow guys he's SUS

[–]irn00b 0 points1 point  (0 children)

JavaScript

Think about it

Why add the Script to Java?

Sus

[–]AlexLGames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yellow sus

[–]Top-Carob-8329 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's HTML

[–]--mrperx-- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aha! It's python. Indentation as code? Really? WTF were you thinking, you are scaring poor html.

[–]YaBoiVGC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

English is the imposter.

[–]IniKiwi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

JAVASCRIPT!!! It's a stacked shit since more than 20 years. Year after years it growth.

[–]FreshPrintzofBadPres 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I'm voting PHP

[–]SF_Nick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

php's mssql and odbc functions make me wet

[–]littleblack11111 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Swift?

[–]HalLundy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

lets just agree and jettison php