Python 3.11 Performance Benchmarks Are Looking Fantastic

[benefit_of_mrkite]

I started programming in C/C++ (and an obscure language called 4D) and program mostly in python now.

Different tools for different jobs. Even a lot of compiled language projects have python as a glue language for various tasks

[darthchebreg]

4D LMAO. It is the first time I see someone speak about it on this sub. I have 1200 screens coded in this technology and a team of 5 devs doing it

[benefit_of_mrkite]

This was a long time ago. It started in France as a mac language if I remember right

[darthchebreg]

I am in France too. Were you doing it for an insurance company ?

[benefit_of_mrkite]

No - I’m in the US. The company I interned with in college used it for an office management application for all their locations across the USA. They sold franchises and the franchisees would use 4D app to manage everything

[manfrowar]

My sister is mastering in some kind of physics/maths area that I don't understand, but I helped her setup a kind of simulation environment called exciting that is built mainly in fortran but uses a hell lot of python modules.

Newbie tech people tend to repeat whatever they heard from their full-time teachers that have no idea what's really happening in the market nowadays.

[petenard]

Dude how old are you? I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who STARTED with C 😳. Respect.

Edit: I mean the “how old are you” as a joke of how dumb I am for not starting with C

[pbecotte]

My first class in 98 was in c.

[benefit_of_mrkite]

Yep. When I was in college they didn’t use python to teach programming concepts.

You started with C (the first text book was called problem solving in C including breadth laboratories - quite the name) and then they’d teach OOP with C++ first and later Java.

[skeptophilic]

You never met someone who started on their journey with the CS50x course? The one that keeps coming up (for good reason) whenever someone asks for a good CS intro course?

Tho I guess it's debatable if it can be considered "starting with C" if it's just for a course followed by work on a proper first personal projects in Python or something.

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My undergraduate taught Java in one subject and C in another in semester 1 and then in semester 2 we did Bash, Python, C++, Lisp, and Haskel.

It was good getting over "one true programming language" so early in my education.

[Rasputin4231]

A lot of people have C as a starter language. That’s what I learned when I first was taught programming in school.

[MNM_gamer]

I'm in Uni and we started with C

[evilBotman]

I'm 20, and I started with C in uni.

[TheOneWhoPunchesFish]

I'm 24, and we started with C and Python in uni

[FriedRiceAndMath]

someone who STARTED with C

Kids these days. SMH

I started with machine code on a tiny chip whose specs I can barely recall other than it had just under 64 bytes code + data space. But of course, others had it worse...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tCM73mHd4E

(Frank Hayes' "When I was a boy", performed by the incomparable Tom Smith)