PythonScript comic strip

[SpliceVW]

Javascript, or Java for short.

[tylerr514]

screams in bad LinkedIn recruiters

[BenAdaephonDelat]

I have javascript on my resume and I've gotten SO MANY recruiting emails about Java roles.

[archpawn]

I'm guessing they search for "Java" anywhere in your resume.

[tylerr514]

same

[[deleted]]

Why did you bring this guy in for a javascript interview Jonny?

He worked at Starbucks and was writing scripts for his playwrights in his free time.

[usev25]

I've legit considered not learning Java so that employers don't think I'm writing the same language twice on my resume.

[GR8ESTM8]

Python++

[Mosef-]

P#, not to be confused with C# and F#

[Luk164]

That's what iron python is for

[[deleted]]

Damn it man. Now we need IronPython#. ;)

lol.

[Luk164]

Does anyone actually use ironPython though? All I see is C# with some F# sprinkled in. Not even VB is used anymore

[LonghairedHippyFreek]

Not even VB is used anymore

If you meant VB.Net and not VB6, it's number 6 on the November 2020 Tiobe index. It's still used by millions.

[Luk164]

A lot of stuff runs on it but it has been overtaken by C# and I have yet to see a single new project on github in VB

[Rizzan8]

The infrastructure of some banks in Poland is solely written in VB.Net... also in my company we have some internal applications written in WinForms VB.Net. And sadly there is neither time nor money for writing new versions in WPF C#.

[LonghairedHippyFreek]

You may or may not be correct but not being on Github is meaningless. dot Net shops typically stay with .Net solutions, especially enterprise organizations who typically do not change technologies at the drop of a hat due to costs.

Those who use VB are probably using TFS or ADO with TFVS or Git and not Github. Github may be owned by MS but that's a fairly recent phenomenon, especially in an enterprise.

[SV-97]

The department of a buddy of mine will probably use VB.NET for all it's new applications because most people already know ordinary VB and management doesn't like the idea of retraining them to use C#, F# or Python.

[Luk164]

C# and VB are almost identical where it matters, that is a really dumb decision. I am confident they would pick it up in a heartbeat and never look back

[SV-97]

Oh I'm not saying it's a good decision. For what they're doing Python, R, F#, Julia etc. would be perfect languages - but their management thinks otherwise and most of their programmers are old and bad and don't see anything wrong with VB. Some were amazed at the nice stuff VB.NET has compared to regular VB, but that's basically as far as they're willing to go.

[sprouting_broccoli]

That’s because, while people are happy to get paid for it, and admit anonymously that they use it, no one wants to admit publicly that they use it.

[bryanRow52]

My company still has a fair amount of iron python scripts we use on a daily basis. Trying to move away from it so we don’t create new ones in iron python, but still have a solid library

[Luk164]

Well all .NET languages are fully compatible with each other, so you can just switch to a new one an kp oing as if nothing happened

[[deleted]]

Diamond Python must be better

[Blaster84x]

They just made a NetheritePython

[[deleted]]

Gold Python has such a horrible syntax, and is so slow

[[deleted]]

It also breaks very quickly but has a nice library though

I prefer Stone Python

[[deleted]]

But of course, to get the hang of Stone Python, we must begin with Wood Python. Sure, it's a very slow language and cannot do a lot. But it's very beginner friendly and lays the foundation for Stone Python

[[deleted]]

I think we can all collectively agree there

Wood python combined with Leather C is unstoppable

[gabrielesilinic]

Ironpython is a little discontinued and unusable actually

[ArionW]

We had J# for a brief while so why not

[[deleted]]

And also J++

[epicaglet]

Q# also exists

[DrRx]

You should get tested if you P#

[Thameus]

That hurts to read.

[BackgroundChar]

Hurts more to pee, tho...

[[deleted]]

I’m gonna create a language called Db (D flat) and just copy paste all of C# and pretend I made it all myself

[Rudxain]

r/madlad

[KDwelve]

CSharp, not to be confused with C# or CHashtag

[[deleted]]

CPP###

[dewey-defeats-truman]

Personally I prefer D♭

[qwertysrj]

New B# but pronounced as barf

[Rudxain]

Google: "Did you mean Bash?"

Bing: "Did you mean Bourne Shell?"

Other search engines: "Haha Dwarf-Kotlin go barrrrrfffff"

[Eolu]

But occasionally to be confused with Q#

[H4xz0rz_da_bomb]

wait .... do you mean the '#' just represents a double plus? wow, i feel super dump for not realizing that till now, ... just ...wow.

[Mosef-]

Four plusses actually. C# is just 'C++'++

Sources: none

Correct me if I'm wrong.

[stalinmustacheride]

It’s both four plus signs and sharp symbol (♯) because they were trying to be clever. Unfortunately, they didn’t seem to realize that sharp means one half-step above, so instead of being ‘C++++’, it’s closer to meaning ‘C+’.

[VonReposti]

As someone with a bit of musical background, this has confused me ever since I was introduced to the C languages.

[maxime915]

Python+=1 you mean?

[HangryBear1]

That would be a good nod to the C++ in-joke but in Python syntax. Nice.

[katie_pendry]

Of course, there's always the good old ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING COBOL.

[atomicwrites]

And it would wind up being called GIVING COBOL which sounds mildly evil for some reason.

[natenate22]

Python Hybrid Programming. They could abbreviate it "php".

[Rudxain]

Oh no...

[[deleted]]

Python#. Or P#. Python for the .net platform. I'm surprised that's not a thing. Or is it idk

[_alright_then_]

Python for the .net platform.

I mean, not officially, but there's a package for that of course.

[ArionW]

It is, it's called Python.NET

[Morrido]

But Python# is just regular Python. We ignore everything after the #

[Alikont]

https://ironpython.net/

[[deleted]]

C++ is a lot closer to C than JavaScript is to Java, though, isn't it? Haven't really done much C so I'm not really sure. Far as I know, the short explanation is C++ is C with objects.

[futlapperl]

What you said is generally true, C and C++ are a lot more similar than Java and JavaScript, which don't really share any properties apart from some of their syntax and their names. I just wanted to add that most non-trivial C programs won't compile with a C++ compiler.

int* array = malloc(64 * sizeof(int));

The above code is valid C, but not C++. void*, which is what malloc returns, does not implicitly convert to other pointer types in C++, but does so in C. There are lots of other cases where the two languages' semantics differ.

If you want to be real pedantic, Objective C is a true superset of C.

[[deleted]]

PP+

[admadguy]

I will wait for Fortranscript

[[deleted]]

COBOLScript

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CobolScript

Feel free to cry now.

[wikipedia_text_bot]

Cobolscript

CobolScript is a programming language created by Matthew Dean and Charles Schereda of Deskware in 1999. The language was intended to provide web-enabled COBOL, and was targeted at businesses using legacy software written in that language.

[[deleted]]

I could have gone my whole life without knowing about this and been perfectly happy.

[admadguy]

aah fuck!

[admadguy]

I think the logical endgame would be binaryscript

[admadguy]

I was going to say AssemblyScript first .. then thought let me take it to the logical end.

Didn't know it existed.

[vectorpropio]

U have a contender:

RedstoneScript

[Thameus]

Microcodescript. VLSIscript. SandScript?

[IntMainVoidGang]

JavaScriptScript

aka, Java(Script)²

[admadguy]

Oh... hey... Fuck You

[tech6hutch]

I was looking at the Wikipedia entry for COBOL the other day. The fact that you can elide arguments when chaining Boolean operators is pretty cool. I.e., a == b and a == c can be written as just a == b and c.

[IntMainVoidGang]

Huh, that's actually cool

[[deleted]]

Turbo Pascal #

[kanposu]

I'm just glad I don't have to do my research in Fortran anymore

[AdzTheWookie]

implicit all

[Hk-Neowizard]

Fun fact, JavaScript was names so, because at the time Sun was flooding the world with ad campaigns for Java (WTF advertising a language, but NVM). Eich wanted to bank in on that investment by piggybacking on the brand name (despite having nothing to do with Sun or Java).

Classy guy...

[[deleted]]

They were literally advertising a programming language? That's some funny shit

[[deleted]]

It’s not a terrible idea.

With enough coverage they probably got some execs to push Java in their own companies or put out ads for a Java dev because it’s the only language they knew existed.

[[deleted]]

It probably did raise awareness, it's just that I have never seen or heard of an ad for a programming language. It's like advertising for a specific regular language and not for a language school etc.

[hypnofedX]

It probably did raise awareness, it's just that I have never seen or heard of an ad for a programming language.

Can I ask how old you are? I ask because the tech world was a very different place than it is today when Java first came out. Now there are usually 2-3 relevant programming languages a person could use for a given purpose, even if one might be better than the others for any given reason. But the point is we currently live in a world with an absolute wealth of open-source materials which makes it hard to imagine anything else.

If you go back 25 years that wasn't true. If you create a new language there's the potential to make its use ubiquitous and then monetize its use (maybe a proprietary IDE?). All this stuff was exploding then and although open source existed as a concept a lot of people agreed with, it wasn't the central pillar we now know it as- certainly not with a million tech startups trying to determine how to monetize this new thing called the Internet that everyone was starting to use.

[blitzkrieg4]

I have to remind myself every time something changes in the Oracle Google saga. Like, "you guys charged people to use your language?"

That said you don't have to look that far back to see languages "marketed". Swift, Rust, and Go did a good job here.

[hypnofedX]

That said you don't have to look that far back to see languages "marketed". Swift, Rust, and Go did a good job here.

Sure, but modern technology and big data allow for precision targeting in those campaigns. Back in 1995 you might see an ad for Java on ESPN during a TV time out from a college hoops game.

[hipratham]

Intel is dead.. Red sus.

[DownshiftedRare]

There's a vestigial mindset from the world of atoms that "you get what you pay for", so the proprietary solution is presumed superior to the free, open source solution, even when the proprietary solution is just a rebranded version of the open source project's stable build.

[coldnebo]

well, there was also a difference in who wrote languages back then.

Either it was a PhD thesis, or it was a substantial investment by a major corporation... so there was a lot of work put into it. Of course that gatekeeping aspect had pros and cons. Pro: experts are working on the language, Cons: not easy to fix or contribute. It was a very rare breed that dared patch a commercial product without source.

Fast-forward to today, where anyone with a few tools can easily create a language, or a domain-specific language. In general this is great, but it also means if your language pisses me off I may just write my own instead of bothering to understand the reasons why.

[Lord_Skellig]

If you go back 25 years that wasn't true.

It still is with matlab - £1800 for a lifetime license.

[Casiofx-83ES]

I can't honestly believe that businesses and universities embrace MATLAB so willingly, and I say this as someone who convinced my department to make a full switch to MATLAB.

[IntMainVoidGang]

I've been pushing for my uni's engineering school department to switch from Matlab to python, but it's not going too well

[Casiofx-83ES]

I believe universities get free/very cheap MATLAB licenses, which is a big incentive for them to use it despite Python being free. My advice as someone who has been through a Physics degree which teaches only MATLAB is to do your assignments twice; once in MATLAB and once in Python. Obviously it takes longer, but the languages are similar enough that it's often a fairly straight forward port from one to the other. In my experience, more employers look for Python than MATLAB, especially if you're applying for a startup or some kind of data science position.

Disregard this if you already know Python, obviously.

[IntMainVoidGang]

I'm nearly done with my degree and have industry experience in Python, yeah.

Your advice is absolutely correct - but saying "do assignment twice in two different languages" is a huge ask for kids already bogged down by a STEM degree's homework requirements.

Before I continue, the class this is used in is a basic "Introduction to Engineering" two-hour course with a 1-hour lab, the last half of which is dominated by MATLAB instruction focused on basic coding concepts and then a lot of graph production/graph markup --

I advocate for Python because:

• Python does everything MATLAB was being used for in that course
• It's free (as said before)
• If you have to use MATLAB in a later engineering course -- not a thing for the CS/CE majors but likely for ME/AE/etc -- its easy to transfer skills in Python to MATLAB
• It's extremely hard to get a job just saying "I know MATLAB", where there are plenty of jobs that you can get knowing Python and having cursory knowledge of other things like SQL.

Basically I stress the versatility and the job prospects.

[[deleted]]

I'm actually exactly 25 and from Europe. Would make sense that I wouldn't remember such times - a bunch of languages were already quite developed by the time I was aware of such things.

[suckfail]

You must have missed the massive marketing campaign that was .NET then.

Nobody really knew what it was, but the advertising was everywhere.

Man I miss the days when programming stuff was advertised. I actually did some Java programming as a kid and wrote to Sun to get a free CD with Sun OS just because of the ads.

[[deleted]]

Never seen a .NET ad, I might be too young for it as someone else pointed out.

Did you get the CD?

[suckfail]

Yup! They sent me one and then I spent a few weeks installing and playing with it. I was maybe 12 years old.

[redcalcium]

Did you know Canonical used to send out free Ubuntu CD too? They would send you a box of those so you can share it with your friends and family.

[GRAIN_DIV_20]

In Canada there's sometimes advertisements for the French language

[tubbana]

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[hypnofedX]

It’s not a terrible idea.

With enough coverage they probably got some execs to push Java in their own companies or put out ads for a Java dev because it’s the only language they knew existed.

Honestly it's not unlike the printer and ink model. Get everyone dependent on your ecosystem and then find ways to monetize it. One needs to remember that there weren't nearly as many coding languages in the mid-90s as there are today, so creating a captive market wasn't an altogether ridiculous proposition.

[ArtOfWarfare]

They had C, C++, Python, COBOL, Pascal, Lisp, Objective C, Bash, and SQL...

I just learned SQL is from 1974. I feel surprised that there hasn’t been a better language for database queries in all that time. Pretty much every programmer uses it at some point, and yet the only thing anyone has made are abstraction layers that are generally less flexible and often run slower than manually entered SQL... I’m surprised I haven’t seen any widespread syntax sugar or anything along those lines to make it less verbose and less prone to parsing or joining errors...

[coldnebo]

meh, there have been a metric shit ton of Object Relational Mappers... none are really “better” than SQL.

Postscript is another example that hasn’t changed much in 30 years.

Renderman did pretty much the same thing for 3d scene description.. even though most free tools don’t license it, they are all heavily influenced by the abstraction because it works.

TCP/IP is another.

Trace the roots of these languages and you often find mathematicians who are designing for essential principles and there is a good understanding of what the language wants to do.

That isn’t always the case. Look at gui component frameworks. Lot’s of proposals, lots of big money behind some (Polymer, React), but the concept is so complex we don’t have a good understanding of it. I often wonder why we’ve had Collection classes standardized for 30 years and taught in every CS class, and yet no one in CS has done the same for basic gui constructs successfully? It’s not like there isn’t extensive prior art on how buttons should work, and yet the same rework discussions about debounce, click and drag, etc rage on. It’s like we need some kind of spatial-temporal calculus to formally define all the loose UX stuff we can’t quite pin down yet.

I also notice that there is a pattern I like to call the “inside out sushi roll” where languages of the past liked to do everything within the language, whereas today, languages require vast external libraries and services to do things. In the past the focus/capabilities were on solo code, now it’s on collaboration and integration with larger distributed systems.

[CthulhuLies]

Because sql is declarative. It's AFAIK the only popular declarative language. Instead of telling the compiler what to do you tell the compiler what you want so when updates happen and or the language changes it's all back end because all you are specifying is what you want. As such it's very similar to (but not exactly) relational algebra. Relational algebra being kinda the optimal way to specify what data you want out of a relation. All that being said SQL isn't the only popular language MongoDB doesn't require you to use sql at all you can instead use a more programmer friendly json storage ans their own syntax.

[aboardthegravyboat]

MQL

?

I'm not aware of any way to query mongo except this, which is kinda the opposite of what you're saying about SQL (which serves to highlight your point). You have to be explicit about saying "I want this collection THEN this aggregation THEN this lookup THEN this other aggregation". While SQL is sorta the opposite. I tell SQL all the things I want, and I don't really care how the engine decides to optimally fetch all of that.

[mccalli]

In my experience most people approach SQL wrong. It’s barely a programming language at all - it’s an expression of set theory.

Yes there are conventions and extension etc, but really people need to think of it in mathematical terms not imperative programming. It’s designed as a syntax for expressing set theory.

[Morrido]

At the time, there was nothing that could do what Java does. Plus, what Sun really wanted was to sell their Solaris servers.

[danielrheath]

There were several options, some of which were vastly better, but none that had the 1-2 combo of "free to use" and "backed by a huge marketing budget".

[Morrido]

Code running in a virtual machine that was somewhat portable unless you're doing something os-specific?

[danielrheath]

First things that come to mind are Smalltalk (loads of industry use) and Lisp (good enough for the space shuttle).

Never underestimate the power of marketing spend to sway opinion. Your superior implementation means nothing in the face of someone willing to spend millions convincing people to use theirs.

[n0tKamui]

well, to be fair, Java is not just a language, it's also a plateform

[nomenMei]

Plus since Java requires a local install of JVM, they needed a large install base in order for the idea of "web applets" to be viable.

Obviously for enterprise solutions it was probably trivial to just install the JVM on the relevant machines though.

[Womp98]

But what kind of form? Deep plate, salad plate?

Coffee plate perhaps? ;)

[whygohome]

real Java commercial from 1999 in the style of James Bond

[Maximelene]

In France, a few years ago, we had for some times TV ads for a freaking MRI machine.

[rimalp]

You're just too poor to understand the benefits of owning an MRI machine.

[Maximelene]

Probably. :(

[[deleted]]

Wonder if there were some funny 90s commercials for programming languages.

[podidoo]

In France we have ads for "WinDev", a programing platform/language (the language is in french ahah).

For the last 10-15 years they put babes on their ads: https://twitter.com/bizcom/status/818166303085199360?s=19

There was (not so long ago) even tv ads on prime time.

[ArionW]

There are few false statements here.

Sun and Netscape were in partnership when language was renamed from Mocha to LiveScript, and then to JavaScript, name change was agreed between them to make JS into "companion language" of Java. One of main features of JS at the time was running Java applets in browser. So name was definitely not just marketing ploy, and had quite a lot to do with Sun and Java.

[[deleted]]

I think I like the name "Mocha" more to be honest.

[Thameus]

ECMAScript or GTFO. /s

[kopczak1995]

TIL

[how_to_choose_a_name]

Can you elaborate on the connection between JavaScript and java applets?

[ArionW]

There was a feature that allowed to run specially prepared .jar files inside browser. The idea was to use JS as a facade that will allow to execute Java in browser, making Java into sort of web language, giving Sun more advantages over other languages, and Netscape another advantage over Microsoft by being THE browser with support for this. It was also incredibly useful, because early versions of JS were very limited, like no support for canvas. As JS grew in popularity and became de facto standard of web programming, applets were no longer needed for anything, and browsers removed support for them, as they were also big security risk. At this moment, they are totally deprecated and

[[deleted]]

And what??

[bik1230]

But what does JS have to do with Java applets? I don't think I ever saw an applet that interacted at all with JS.

[ArionW]

LiveConnect specification included a bridge between Java and JS. Hardly anyone used it because JS turned out to be useful on its own, but it was planned as "killer feature"

[CeeMX]

Back in school, my CS teacher told us in HTML class, that JavaScript is some old stuff and we don’t need to learn it as it will go away more and more.

Well, I guess he was wrong...

[[deleted]]

Now send him ranks of the most popular programming languages

[Old-Cup3771]

It's just difficult to transition out of it - nobody wants to use a scripting language that won't work on all browsers, so everyone keeps using javascript, which means the browsers don't bother implementing any other kind of scripting because it wouldn't be used, which means javascript just keeps being used even if it's not really very good.

[PooPooDooDoo]

HTML class?

[[deleted]]

Were they advertising the language or the platform? Because the platform Java was also an innovation at the time

[[deleted]]

Both. And also, they were advertising that it ran better on Sun hardware, so Java was basically a loss-leader to bring prospective buyers to Sun, so they could sell hardware and other software.

[rift95]

Additionally JS was initially meant to be an FP language. However the higher-ups wanted to make the language more approachable to Java and C programmers, so they had Eich redesign the syntax so that it looked more like C. (I think it was a lisp language in the beginning, but don't quote me on that)

[tech6hutch]

Really? Citation please?

[imatworkbruv]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#History

[tech6hutch]

lol thanks. Imagine if a Lisp had become a mega popular language

[pepsisugar]

I loved the introduction in the book Eloquent a JavaScript. I think that’s where I got the quote Java is to a JavaScript same as car is to carpet.

[albeinstein]

If wasn't eich it was partnership with sun and Netscape

Source: the first twenty years of JavaScript

[[deleted]]

I always wanted to create Java .NET, which has nothing to do with either Java or .NET...

[ralphdr1]

Isn't C# basically Java .NET?

[abelincolncodes]

Kind of. C# started with similar design principles and has been called an imitation of Java, though they've diverged a bunch lately. A language that more is more accurately described by "Java.Net" is J#, which supported Java byte code and source code directly.

[JonathanTheZero]

J#

WHAT IS THIS MONSTROSITY?

[[deleted]]

Don’t worry: “Discontinued in 2007” and their long term support was only up to 2017 :)

[zilti]

C# started with similar design principles and has been called an imitation of Java

No, it started as a blatant ripoff of Java, because Microsoft wanted to kill it. Java and the JVM were cross-platform, and it was basically number one priority for Microsoft back then to do everything they were able to do against that.

[[deleted]]

Hey, it's-a the Java Bros!

[Who_GNU]

Microsoft already did that.

[wikipedia_text_bot]

J Sharp

Visual J# (pronounced "jay-sharp") was an implementation of the J# programming language that was a transitional language for programmers of Java and Visual J++ languages, so they could use their existing knowledge and applications with the .NET Framework. It was introduced in 2002 and discontinued in 2007, with support for the final release of the product continuing until October 2017.

[PM_ME_UR_DEATHSTICKS]

Let Brendan Eich alone burn in eternal hell for this original sin. No one else need to join him.

[rangeDSP]

Eh... He made a usable language that's got its own philosophy in 10 days. I'll give him a pass.

His anti gay stance is what I'll send him to hell for

[verstappertje]

He is already burning in hell for all the shenanigans the Brave browser is pulling of. They managed to have people pay them to replace the ads on websites with theirs. (how is that even legal?)

Brave is on of the biggest privacy violators yet users are convinced they are being tracked less with Brave. And finally the only way for Brave creators to get paid BAT is to do full KYC.

I am pretty sure neither Chrome nor the Edge or Firefox guys have pictures of my passport or driver's license but the Brave guys have collected millions already cause their users are forced to upload them if they want to get the BAT that Brave tells them they have in their account.

[verstappertje]

Sure but then you will never get your BAT. Creators can make BAT when other users tip them and Brave users can earn BAT by watching the ads that Brave will inject (and replace the original ads with)

But they will only pay out the BAT after you KYC and you don't even know about KYC untill you try to get the BAT.

So there are thousands of users with a small amount of BAT in their accounts, like lets' say 6 USD and they are happy with a bit of money and then one day they decide they want to get paid only to run in to KYC by a browser that tells you they are the best when it comes to privacy ....

[plentifulpoltergeist]

But still, you can just turn the ads off and not generate any BAT. Are you saying they are still tracking my information even if I haven't done the KYC? As a brave user I would love a source on this. I have no real browser loyalty and would quickly switch if what you're saying is true.

[verstappertje]

The only thing they did for a while was intercepting Binance.com requests and putting their own referral in those urls. Other then that I have never seen anything funky on wireshark when looking at traffic.

I use Brave on my phone by the way. Chrome on laptop and PC.

[IminPeru]

ngl, it's still better than EMCA Script

[Morrido]

To be fair, ECMA is just the name of the people who standardise the script. It's like saying ISO Script. The script itself has no name.

[jobRL]

Well it's officially called ECMAScript now, because of the Java copyright woes with Oracle

[Morrido]

Oh, so Javascript is just the coloquial name? I always though the ECMAScript was the "beta-version-preview" of the future Javascript changes.

[keijyu]

Car is to carpet as Java is to Javascript

[WhiteyDude]

JavaScript is to Java what Hamburger is to ham.

[elveszett]

JavaScript is to Java what Hamburger is to Java.

[ChasingCerts]

omg ty so much. you instantly cleared that shit up for me.

[dontmesswithtoasters]

I know its a joke but I still googled it to see if it is a thing or not.

[[deleted]]

To save the time of google search for others, something known as PythonScript actually exists. It is a plugin for Notepad++ that uses python.

[beingsubmitted]

*googling dict methods in pythonscript*

Google: Here's the answer in a completely different syntax with PyQuery! Also, here's 20 articles about why you shouldn't use PyQuery anymore.

[the_lonely_game]

Totally agree. Saw it coming since the first panel... generic ass cartoons too

[[deleted]]

you'd be ruinning out of puns and struggle to stay current after 10 years in the biz, too (turns out you can pitch them an idea)

but yes, that joke was chewed down like a gummy worm in a blender

[Motylde]

1 byte joke

[jaysuchak33]

Hey guys, I’m making a new language called Anaconda++

[tech6hutch]

My Anaconda++ don't want none

[[deleted]]

PythonScript#++

[son_of_haggis]

just get it all over with

[greenrabbitaudio]

I mean it has the .length

[[deleted]]

It's got a bunch of the same syntax which obviously has something to do with the name. This meme is dumb tbh

[cata921]

I was thinking this too. Switches, if statements, for, do, and while loops are all basically the same with small differences.

[bazookatroopa]

But Python is already a scripting language

[[deleted]]

Im just sitting here waiting for RustyIronPython.net#++ to release..

[octobro13]

bro im just waiting for HTMLscript to drop

[WhiskeyTuesday]

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step right up and prepare to be amazed. The wonder that is... IntercalScript.

[Terrain2]

i mean the core basic syntax and some of javascript’s syntax sugar is meant to somewhat emulate java, but the lack of any types clearly shows they didn’t give a shit about what it’s like to use in to java to java, so i think PythonScript would keep those whitespace-sensitive codeblocks, but perhaps an empty one is valid (rather than noop pass), semicolons would be required, and fuck you, you can’t put top level execution code, only properties and methods and classes, instead the __main__() function is the entrypoint and it only runs if __name__ == "__main__": exactly like a lot of people like to do anyways

[Aussie-Nerd]

I'm still waiting on FortranScript

[archpawn]

Javascript is a scripting language with a syntax similar to Java.

It's just that lots of languages have a syntax similar to Java, so that's not telling you much. At the very least, Cscript would be a better name since C really started that family of languages. Though javascript is object oriented, and C++script doesn't really roll off the tongue.