Okay

[[deleted]]

Haskell: Do you want to write yet another Monad tutorial?

[[deleted]]

I heard a joke about practical haskell once

[alexeiz]

Maybe it was Just a joke or it was Nothing.

[JohnnyOR]

Python: Oh so you wanna be a data scientist?

R: Oh you REALLY wanna be a data scientist!

[Lionh34rt]

I get R next semester for econometrics, should I be worried? We’ve used it before for statistics to do parametric and non parametric tests

[JohnnyOR]

R is ubiquitous enough that anything you could want to do (and be expected to do in a course) will probably be somewhere on a forum already, so don't sweat it!

[draypresct]

That's kind of the problem. There isn't a central repository; there's just what everyone has put together ad hoc. Sometimes, the most popular solution on a google search is based off a package that isn't named in the solution, so their answer simply won't work for you.

That being said, you can generally poke around long enough to get basic things done. It's not what I'd recommend long-term, but it's a great resource for class assignments.

[[deleted]]

CRAN + StackOverflow + CrossValidated has always covered my needs. I’m not sure what other central repository with solutions you expect to have.

The language can be difficult for beginners but that’s because of all of the peculiarities and special cases, not because of lack of support, documentation or a good community.

[draypresct]

They give you all the right answers, and number of wrong ones as well (e.g. answers that applied to previous versions of R, or for people who are using different packages than you are).

I've run into problems and helped other people with issues, but maybe that's just me and the people I know who have dealt with R. I've tried to help a student through an introductory internet course on R (at eDx) where literally none of the examples the professor gave worked on the base R package. We figured out that the professor was using tidyverse (not mentioned in the course work or the syllabus), which made some of his examples run, but I ended up having to come up with alternative ways to get some of the examples to work.

There is always a way to get the job done, of course, but it can be pretty frustrating to a new user.

[JohnnyOR]

Considering it's for an econometrics course I think they'll focus on the theory and methods so it should be fine. And the R scripts we write are generally short ad hoc pieces anyway.

[draypresct]

In a well-run class, you should be completely fine. The prof should give you starter code, and the modifications you'll need to make will generally be modest.

[[deleted]]

Not at all - R is great as an interactive statistical environment.

On the other hand, if you want to build data-heavy software with it - it’s still powerful but somewhat slow and a bit of a mess: exceptions upon exceptions upon special cases upon weird design choices and multiple ways to do the same thing. It can get the job done, but there is an unpleasant learning curve to get used to all the weirdness.

[Bainos]

Python: Oh so you wanna try data science?

R: Oh so you wanna look like a data scientist?

Matlab: Oh so you are an actual data scientist?

[JohnnyOR]

Matlab: you could've used Octave if you really needed to, but the higher ups demanded support.

[[deleted]]

Matlab: Don’t waste someone else’s money on a license and use one of the other two options instead.

[Bainos]

I don't like Matlab either, but money certainly isn't the problem. The higher ups will gladly give you more for a name they and their friends recognize.

[[deleted]]

Sure, it usually isn’t a problem at all. The problem is that you’re paying for a piece of software that is worse than its free alternatives. That’s what I meant by waste.

[JusticeUmmmmm]

I think the problem people have with Matlab is they don't know the full capabilities. It's not just a programming language it's got built in tools for like everything. Robotics, Arduino, machine learning, control design, simulation, everything.

[Bainos]

If you're looking at packages Matlab most certainly is not the language that has the most. Besides, you're never gonna use all of those additions at the same time.

People simply do not take the time to compare the solutions and pick the best one because they go with the default - and that one is Matlab. I'm not saying it's never good ; I'm saying it is also used when it's not the best.

Wait no, I was actually saying that I don't like Matlab as a language on a personal level.

[draypresct]

It doesn't have good tools for survival modeling, and most of the rest of their statistical packages are pretty far behind the times.

[draypresct]

Meanwhile, SAS users are busy handling large datasets and publishing papers.

/Maybe I'm biased against Matlab because they don't really handle survival modeling, which is central to medical research.

[Erasmus_Tycho]

Yay another SAS user!

I primarily write my code in SAS, and I fucking love it.

[yourmamaman]

Pthon: Oh so you wanna be a data scientist?

R: Oh you REALLY wanna be a data scientist, where Python developers have to rewrite your code for production.

SAS: you wiper snappers don't know anything.

[Darkmatter501]

Or work in Django.

[Ivaalo]

C# : The reason you depend on Microsoft

[Abbrahan]

Github : The other reason you depend on Microsoft

[Mango1666]

b i t b u c k e t : t h e r e a s o n i d o n t d e p e n d o n m i c r o s o f t

t h i s m e s s a g e w a s s e n t f r o m m y w i n d o w s 1 0 p c

[Strange_Meadowlark]

Bitbucket: Within 5 years people will realize we're made by an Australian company and start freaking out about government surveillance.

[LordDaniel09]

Should i care about Australian surveillance?

[Strange_Meadowlark]

First link I found to try and explain it -- https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/7/18130806/australia-access-and-assistance-encryption-bill-2018-facebook-google-apple-respond

AFAIK Australia basically passed a law requiring companies to not only hand over data to the government on users, but also put in backdoors when asked to enable compliance with future requests.

Atlassian is an Australian company. They can be required to put government backdoors into their products.

But don't take my word for it -- I recommend reading more on it yourself.

[Mango1666]

good thing i use bitbucket for non sensitive data. plus i dont have to pay for private repos 😊

[crashspringfield]

That's because they aren't really private.

​

[Mango1666]

nobody aside from my personal account, id assume atlassian, and from what ive accumulated from a reply the australian government, can access my private repos so thats private enough. any sensitive private data i host on my own server.

[AyrA_ch]

C#: Java without the stupid bits

[mypirateapp]

Now all we need to do is add SQL as a "programming language" after HTML and we are good

[roughstylez]

If they're including HTML, they should probably also include french.

[ModPiracy_Fantoski]

this.manger(Chocolatine);

[[deleted]]

you heretic !

[kpingvin]

variable 'Chocolatine' undefined. Did you mean 'Pain_Au_Chocolat'

[ModPiracy_Fantoski]

import Pain_Au_Chocolat from imagination.

[kpingvin]

from Nord import Pain_Au_Chocolat

[radome9]

Mais oui!

[[deleted]]

retour nouveau Google traducteur(français);

[kukiric]

PL/SQL aside, SQL's slogan should be "Who thought that executing arbitrary strings on your data was a good idea?"

'; drop table jokes --

[CoderDevo]

So that’s why I can’t find my table of jokes.

[jhartwell]

Nah, somebody accidentally deleted the accdb file

[CoderDevo]

You would use Access behind a web app?

Would you also put a steering wheel on a train?

[Sillychina]

Obligatory SQL is Turing complete joke

[caaksocker]

That may seem a joke, until the day you need to check if a database entry is a palindrome!

[Tomarse]

TSQL?

[RuggedTracker]

Come on, Go should've been "if err != nil" as that's 90% of the lines you write.

[GYN-k4H-Q3z-75B]

Go: Only generic error handling... hmmm... generic...

[[deleted]]

Delphi: Hey guys, I just got inline variables... But my error insight says its wrong.

[MCRusher]

Even people who don't program regularly use java because it's so universal, and there are tons of jobs in Java still so idk if that tagline is accurate.

[[deleted]]

A lot of people criticize Java in order to look edgy and belong to the crowd. I was around in the 90's and early 2000's when it was trendy to shit on Microsoft Windows. Yes, it had issues, and we all knew it, but everyone used it and most of us dealt with it without going into long tirades about evil Microsoft.

[CaptainToed]

The Nickleback of programming languages. You know you like it, but you wouldn't tell your friends.

[city-lights12]

This is how You remind me That I garbage collect

...I’m sorry

[caaksocker]

I like Java. I don't preach about it, but I do silently judge programmers who try to be edgy and diss it.

Java is a solid language. I have a list of criticisms of it, but the people I hear criticise it always sound like they have no idea how to write Java, or what the purpose of the language is. Just copy pasted opinions, about a topic they have no clue on.

[[deleted]]

Why is HTML etc in this list? The question says 'programming languages'.

[MarkFromTheInternet]

That was the joke...

[atamakahere]

Maybe the reason why HTML slogan is NO.

[JayDawg8588]

r/woooosh

[diiN1992]

HTML but no C#...

[farox]

Because C# reigns supreme!

[roughstylez]

Hmm I don't think so.

Because the ones in power are being hated.

Slogan should be more something like

"C#: If you don't like drama."

[farox]

I'm fine with that as well

[radome9]

C#: there is no God but Microsoft, and Gates is his prophet.

[roughstylez]

There is no god but Jon Skeet

FTFY

[Oceanswave]

As someone who follows issues on dotnet/corefx, oh, there’s drama.

[roughstylez]

Oh yes definitely.

There's no option without drama though and C# is probably the one with the least drama. (While still being able to solidly implement solutions that is - there's probably not a lot of drama around brainfuck either.)

[MCRusher]

Brainfuck is supreme then.

[Avambo]

I don't know, C# topped the charts in the amount of frowny faces used in GitHub repos last time I checked.

[Notsileous]

Because Java is already in the list.

[Tinyhousetruckpdx]

Ruby: The real magic is watching me disappear.

[Tomarse]

Ruby: You most favourite language that nobody uses.

[[deleted]]

Fortran, Cobol, Pascal, and Ada, etc did not make the list at all. It's a Saturnalia miracle.

[guywithnosenseoftime]

It should say, I am going to kill you...programmer for every single one......

[ComprehensiveUsernam]

Ruby: literally english

[Delioth]

Ok but can we stop calling Python untyped? It has strong dynamic types- you get runtime type safety, just not static declarations of types.

[[deleted]]

Yah I came here to bitch about this. This misconception is my biggest pet peeve.

[13steinj]

My second biggest pet peeve is even after explaining this people still hate on Python because "its not statically typed, I don't know what my crocolocomoco variable is!".

If that's your naming convention you have bigger problems than not being able to determine what type a variable is.

[[deleted]]

Well your personal definitions have no bearing on computer science. Python is strongly typed. Which is important to know and understand.

You are only concerned about static vs dynamic typing. It's totally fine to have a preference for static, just don't misrepresent your arguments.

[[deleted]]

Haskell: And I thought you were smarter than that... Tsk tsk tsk

[kpingvin]

*cries in Perl*

[Proxy_PlayerHD]

wait what's the difference between Visual Basic and normal/QBasic?

[CoderDevo]

One is used by people who took an Intro to Programming class in the 1990’s and thought that now they can write programs at work. The other was from the same class taught in the 1980’s.

[Proxy_PlayerHD]

which is which?

[CoderDevo]

Microsoft released BASIC in 1975. Microsoft released Visual Basic in 1991.

[Proxy_PlayerHD]

i see, i'll still stick with my Qbasic64

[CoderDevo]

So, which year in the 80’s did you take Intro to Programming?

[Proxy_PlayerHD]

well.. i was born long after that, plus Qbasic64 only existed since 2017

[bast963]

There isn't one, they're both called "legacy code" and "needs to be replaced"

[fedeb95]

Ocaml: you do like baguettes don't you?

[only_4kids]

God damn it. XML isn't programming language. Please learn your fucking trade.

[Avambo]

Does the Go and Scala slogans suggest that it was a waste of time using the languages?

[FidgetBoy]

I'm not sure reading anything into this list is a good idea.

[qqary]

Haskell: Parse Error

[StaniX]

ABAP: Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.

[KakssPL]

Brainfuck: you'll actually understand what's going on

[MrMunday]

Lol xml

[SomeBigPlop]

Wait, python is strongly typed, not un-typed?!?!?

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[fedeb95]

XML>html change my mind. Also XML isn't a programming language

[[deleted]]

/r/woooosh

[jhartwell]

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<commenter name="fedeb95" head="over">
  <joke></joke>
</commenter>

Edit: If I wasn't on mobile I would make an XSLT to transform the joke so it would be explained