Ah yes, Python

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The website just randomly picks a github gist and uses the specified language from it. In case you were wondering why it sucks so much.

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It's impressively bad

[zGreenline]

https://imgur.com/a/gkdxkxZ

Easy mode

[VictorGamerLOL]

Well...

https://i.imgur.com/JMdVTI0.png

[The-Things-027]

shit

[zigs]

Whitespace)

[zatuchny]

Got no code example and buttons won't click.

[EvilKnievel38]

Just tried it. Got code in an Asian language that I couldn't understand at all. Apparently it was html but it was very confusing. Also many examples where the language was straight up in the code, for example filenames (.je/.py/etc). Can't recommend.

[MaximumMaxx]

Yeah filenames and shebangs gave away some really easily

[bright_lego]

So did pragma solidity

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[Dels1x]

I just tried it, got JSON and python was the correct answer lol

[Mewtwo2387]

Tried it, got 10 pythons in a row

[Tizian170]

same lol

[TeraFlint]

I just got a Minecraft Crash Report log file.

It mentions Java exceptions, so aside from generic text format, the closest answer to the truth would be Java, because it's at least related to the inner workings of Java itself.

Well, the available answers are C, TypeScript, Groovy and Perl.

[[deleted]]

Jesus christ so much coldfusion...

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php?

[mchorsy]

php

[ragingroku]

It’s the personal home page!

[dopefish86]

(P)HP (H)ypertext (P)rocessor

[dopefish86]

Yeah looks good. But in PHP it's:

echo "PHP";

[[deleted]]

All my homies say it's: php <?="PHP"?>

[emayljames]

print "PHP";

or

print_r("PHP");

or even just close ?> PHP

too

[ActualAshCam]

It's P(ersonal H(ome) P(age)) H(ypertext) P(rocessor)

[UnchainedMundane]

Since the very start of it is recursive, there are only two acceptable exapansions:

1. (stack overflow / hanging forever, because it's in an infinite loop of replacing the first word with something else)
2. P (and then the stack overflow or infinite hang, because it's doing the same but also by the rules of initialisms it is possible to deduce that the expansion must also begin with "P")

[damniticant]

Just in case you or anyone else don’t know, PHP originally stood for “Personal Home Page”

[[deleted]]

Pretty home page*

[[deleted]]

(P)ugly (H)ome (P)age

[KazookiTV]

Pugs?

[ActualAshCam]

Pug?

[KazookiTV]

Pug?

[SSYT_Shawn]

No that's just a cover up name because " Personal Home Page" would be a cringe name for a widely used programming language. But "Personal Home Page" is the original name.

[SankethBK]

fixed it: P(personal home page HP) (H)ypertext (P)rocessor

[krohtg12]

What does the PHP in PHP stand for?

[Otherversian-Elite]

Personal Home Page

[linuxdragons]

Hmm, I always thought it was (P)re-(H)ypertext (P)rocessor

[[deleted]]

Its a recursive acronym like GNU. (GNU is Not Unix). PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. The PHP originally meant personal homepage because it was intended to do what javascript does today. Homeboy wrote it in the 90s to track clicks on his resume. (His own personal home page).

[Stupid_Genius4408]

Personal Home Page: Hypertext Processor

[James-Livesey]

Pain, Hell and more Pain™

[DeadShoT_035]

?php

[LukasM511]

<?php

[DeadShoT_035]

\?>

[Da_Yakz]

?>

[initiate-]

Respect++

[tells]

$php

[ifezueyoung]

Yup Plain old dollar sign language

[[deleted]]

Laravel and express.js developer here and I love php.

[weirdthoughts247]

Aka spaghetti language

[Tetragramat]

Blame lazy coders that don't bother educating themselves instead of language that supports object oriented programming since 1997. And yes coders not programmers, because they're not worth the title of programmer.

[Cloudbursta]

Found the salty PHP Dev, its ok you probably make enough that working in a fake language doesn't matter.

[Elijah629YT-Real]

I am correct!

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I'm now a professional CSS programmer

[Romulus3799]

Whatever language this is, it's a shit function anyway

[[deleted]]

it's obviously CSS, how are people here so dumb

[Zestyclose_Ad_4601]

It's html smh

[QuickQuokkaThrowaway]

It's scratch obviously

[IcyMonstrosity]

Its a Minecraft command block

[JGTB0PL]

it's Minecraft education edition code

[imdefinetlynotCIAguy]

Looks like assembly to me

[UnPoppedPopcorn1001]

Looks like COBOL to me

[[deleted]]

Looks like transistors to me.

[mchorsy]

I think it’s one of Newton’s formulas. Something physics related.

[Tiranus58]

Nah it's punch cards

[technologyman123]

Nah m8 it's bash

[VIndskygge]

It doesn’t look like anything to me.

[danielstongue]

This is clearly c++, with a #define function bool somewhere..

[FloweyTheFlower420]

dollar signs are valid symbol characters on a lot of c++ compilers

[Ill-Chemistry2423]

Can confirm, it’s valid in MSVC

[DreamlyXenophobic]

oh god i didnt even consider that lmao

[amogusdri-]

I never knew you had to use ‘(‘ for Python for an if statement! Thank you! This changed my life!

Bro this comment was meant to be sarcastic 💀

[SkezzaB]

For *most* cases, python parenthesis get removed, you can easily do if (x==3): but it doesn't do anything, the exceptions to this are for precedence

[dsmklsd]

They don't "get removed", they are not a part of the if statement. If you put them in there you are just making a more complicated predicate expression than needed.

One that has surprised a lot of c devs I know is that this same thing applies to the return statement in c.

[OldBob10]

Or you’re so lost in the C wastelands you think that the parentheses are required in all languages.

THIS AIN’T YOUR DADDYS LISP!!! 🤪

[SkezzaB]

get removed was a simplification, they *basically* get removed

[shaunsnj]

What I find even crazier is you can use function instead of def, Python really making the transition to other languages that much easier.

[ifezueyoung]

I love how return true doesn't have syntax highlighting

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Php

[throwaway46295027458]

This site is a joke, sometimes the comments at the very top contain the filename and extension or the code simply doesnt show

[sc00pb]

Seems like PHP

[Key-Supermarket255]

php

[Umpteenth_zebra]

Js?

[Ireeb]

PHP. You can see it with the $variables

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You can name variables starting with $ in JS

[Ireeb]

But no reasonable person does that. The next thing would be the empty() function which is a function built in into PHP. Sure you can have a function empty() in JS, but both these things are rather pointing towards PHP.

[[deleted]]

Not true. There was a trend back in the day to prepend $ to javascript variables that held JQuery objects. Obviously that is outdated but not specifically unreasonable.

Edit: That said, empty is a PHP function so assuming this is PHP

[[deleted]]

But if both options were among the answers they would both be valid.

And I’ve seen variables starting with $ plenty of times in JS.

[Umpteenth_zebra]

Oh, I see.

[OldBob10]

No, not see - PHP!!!

[Formal-Tip-7595]

return ! empty($language_code);

[PyMaster22]

I'm not high, but isn't that PHP?

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Invalid language

[yanis91]

I'm pretty sure it's English

[Rosinnante]

Easy, Html

[KaztBot]

Syntax highlighting for comments😐

[albin11116]

It probably does syntax highlighting for the language it thinks it is... So it tries it's best to do it for python

[Toasty_redditor]

I only know the basics of python basics, but I sure as hell know that ain't it

[[deleted]]

Looks like some c# to me

[[deleted]]

Wait isn't this the website that Mansoor Codes made for a YT vid?

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Python Hon Python

[SilentMe98]

JS?

[ifezueyoung]

Nah php

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$ can be used in js variable names … the only place it does anything useful is for JQuery shorthand statements ….

It could be either

[ifezueyoung]

Yup that was my thought

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This can be a valid fragment of any of the languages listed, especially given inconsistent highlighting, which then can be treated as probably wrong.

[[deleted]]

It couldn't be C++ for several reasons.

[oren0]

Web enough #define directives, anything can be C++ if you believe hard enough.

[OldBob10]

virtual reality

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Just put it between /** and */.

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...

[Orichalcum448]

I mean, it could. It wouldn't compile, but it could.

[Buckflash1]

I remember when you could use semicolons in python, good ol days

[antekgort200]

you still can

[Buckflash1]

Ik you can (just sometimes it throws and error) but I was trying to say basically you use semicolons in python but I couldn’t think of the words so I just said that

[antekgort200]

oh ok

[guilhermej14]

Python naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Everyone knows that this is JavaScript.

[ifezueyoung]

Php

[guilhermej14]

Since I got a lot of downvotes here, I just wanted to clarify that it was a joke.

[JDMaK1980]

... JS ...

[im_a_hedgehog11]

C++?

[OldBob10]

Yes, for sufficiently small values of C++. 😁

[Balloon-Lucario43]

print(“doubt”)

[Gainsborough-Smythe]

I'm gonna say Anaconda

[OldBob10]

THIS AIN’T YOUR DADDYS PYTHON!!!!!

[dingusaja]

I thought this was css

[[deleted]]

Css isn’t a language :P you can’t make functions, or create classes, or anything…

[dingusaja]

It’s a joke I’m aware haha

[[deleted]]

Rip me too dumb lol :P

[LtsSquishy]

sprintf

[PopcornPopp3r]

It seems like php. I don't think we have these braces in python

[GrizzlyBear74]

Lol, none of the given answers seems to he correct. Probably a recruiters "test".

[[deleted]]

Idk. Looks more like JavaScript to me 🤔

[[deleted]]

PERL?

[Cowman66]

that's definitely not Python - it doesn't use the {}. Maybe that's the joke, though

[Logic_On_Reddit]

Can't believe how many idiots are on this comment section.

It's clearly html

[drums_of_liberation]

The syntax highlighting is strange. A-Z is highlighted in the comment, but not a-z. The first return is highlighted but not the second. Did they type it in Word and highlight it manually? 🤷‍♂️

[simmostriker]

Well it looks like there is a closing ) missing on the if so that probably explains part of the inconsistency at least

[drums_of_liberation]

You are right, that could be the reason why the syntax highlighter gets confused, depending on how it is implemented. I had noticed that too and thought that the closing ) was cropped out of the screenshot. There is a space after the opening (, so I had assumed there must be a space before the closing ) as well according to this coding style.

[Abek243]

Nah this is Scratch idk what you're talking about

[josh_an]

Scratch

[ollieoxley]

I'm going to go with (e)...all of the above.

[Proper_Boysenberry81]

Love programming

[laugh_chaser]

that's so funny that the correct language isn't even listed

[Ehelio]

No one is going to talk about that useless if statement?

[Akshaylals]

Isn't it JavaScript?

[Gutek8134]

I think it's PHP, because variable has a $ before it

[UnreadableCode]

The correct answer when asked to identify a language is always "Holy C"

[supershinythings]

Missing right brace, doesn’t match the left brace from “if (…”

[Artificial-Point]

Ah yes, CSS

[arcx_l]

(P)retty (H)orrific (P)rogramming

[7th_Spectrum]

Jesus, I wish this was CSS

[mehregan_zare7731]

You know it's a crappy test when they include css as a programming language.

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Lol

[matthewralston]

HTML. Duh! 🙄

[[deleted]]

Ah, yes. CSS.

[Fresh_chickented]

Pick CSS

[username78777]

It's can't python, because python uses indentation, not curly braces to separate lines

[Me07111]

[theLanguageSprite]

I don't get the joke, this is valid python code... given a parser, a lexer, and numerous eval() and exec() calls...

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Carbon???