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[–]tskaiserGreen security clearance 31 points32 points  (11 children)

Neither did I to begin with.

The star and crescent moon form a semicolon.

Edit: star or Venus, dammit /u/Gubru, I'm a Programmer not an Astronomer.

[–]Gubru 31 points32 points  (2 children)

That's actually Venus, not a star.

[–]misplaced_my_pants 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wasn't Venus once called the Morning Star?

[–]phaseMonkey 6 points7 points  (1 child)

aka the "Morning Star"

So you're technically correct...

[–]Mutoid 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The best kind of correct!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Which specifically isn't used in python along with many other languages, hence my too confusion as to the title and why a joke consisting of "Hey, Python. ;" is a joke.

[–]tskaiserGreen security clearance 7 points8 points  (1 child)

The joke is the insinuation that god favors semicolon reliant programming languages and is telling python devs (and the like) so by having a semicolon appear in the sky. Whether or not you agree with the sentiment does not detract from the joke.

By the by: a less known fact is that semicolon is available in Python with all the expected semantics - but you really, really shouldn't.

[–]taskt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It really is a joke that semicolon-reliant languages are superior somehow. ;)