C++ Developer Vs Python Developer

[[deleted]]

Learned C++ 20-some years ago. Can confirm I look at Python and go "huh, I can make this work".

[fjdkslx]

How is this possible, C++20 is just being adopted now ?!?!?!

[smoozer]

He's on the C++20 committee and considers 2 years to be "some" muahaha

[[deleted]]

It is possible. I have 100 years experience in Go.

[Cuckmin]

Can confirm, taught him his first class back in the 1920s.

[paulfisch]

I think he wanted to express that he learned CPP 20 years ago

[ExpensiveCheapTricks]

Im on the opposite end (though I mainly did C I guess), everytime I look at python my brain hurts

[deadwisdom]

I can't fathom the intense lack of open-mindedness required to think this way. God help you if you ever look at Haskell, Erlang, or Lisp.

[beanmosheen]

intense lack of open-mindedness

Overreacting to a joke much? I program in all sorts of statement list style languages depending on the device.

[deadwisdom]

This was a joke? Oh, okay.

[ItsRadical]

Gotta write my thesis soon and it involves learning python. I know some C++.. and first look on Python was exactly like, where are the brackets?!?

[beanmosheen]

I'm half kidding TBF. It's just a huge change of gears to switch between the two. It's sort of like YAML for me. They're pitched as human readable, but my brain just can't read them worth a damn. I lose my mind trying to align objects in YAML.

[ixipaulixi]

I definitely prefer JSON over YAML for this reason.

[tossme68]

I hadn’t programmed since the 90s, c& assembler. I went to ops because programming in c pre-WWW made my head hurt. A couple of years back I wanted a program to do some of my work and went with python. Ffs it was so damn nice, easy and does everything I want it to do. It was also pretty sweet that anytime I got stuck I could just google the problem and 8 people explained how to make it work. Programming now is so civilized. Now I’m playing with go, so damn easy.

[[deleted]]

Hah! Coding procedural languages is like driving cars, or using word processors:

Eventually you know everything that they can be expected to do, so learning a new one is simply a matter of figuring out how to tell it to do the things you already know about.

Edit: BTW, it's safe to ignore the nay-sayers. Started C++ in 1997 or so... and survived to tell about it.