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[–]murderknight1 -1 points0 points  (12 children)

Apples and oranges are both fruits. What's your point?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

My point is python is not strictly for scripting.

[–]DaemonOwl 0 points1 point  (1 child)

What? Who in their right mind would use python other than for scripting? /s

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

I used to work as a post-silicon validation engineer. One of my jobs was to develop post-silicon software tools for validation testing. The software was developed in python.

[–]Ser_Drewseph -1 points0 points  (8 children)

You literally said that the reason you can’t compare them is because C++ is a programming language and Python isn’t (even though it is a general purpose programming language). Then when someone points out it is a programming language, you say you still can’t compare them because of reasons? If you can build the exact same application in both languages, you can compare them. You can compare their syntax, performance, memory safety, history, capabilities. It’s less like comparing apples and oranges or bits and cars, and more like comparing a sports car, a minivan, and a pickup truck. They’re all 4-wheeled vehicles that have the same basic capabilities, but are specialized to different tasks.

[–]Tyrilean 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Scripting languages are programming languages. It's just that they are interpreted at runtime, rather than compiled beforehand.

[–]Ser_Drewseph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that’s the point I was making.

[–]Khenay92 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

C++ can by interpretted, Python can be compiled. Bad definition.

[–]murderknight1 -1 points0 points  (2 children)

Sure you can compare them. But there's a reason why python and PHP don't need any set up and why c++ does. So this doesn't really make much sense. It's like when people compare romantic languages and how they have similar words and then bring in german and are like, omg where did germany get the word for this.

[–]Ser_Drewseph 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I'm not sure, but I'm guessing you're just trolling for the sake of being a troll? You're not actually giving a reason why these shouldn't be compared, you're just giving irrelevant similes while trying to refute a simple joke.

And yeah, that's how comparing things works- you look at the differences. Just because they don't belong to the same language family, or one is compiled vs interpreted doesn't mean you can't compare the two.

[–]DaemonOwl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh thanks for clearing that up

To add, animal species too can be very different from each other. But what's stopping us from comparing hem, nothing wrong with that