Can anyone confirm accuracy?
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I am old and a nerd and I don’t see Perl on here.
Wait… is it the tiny camel at the bottom?
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Ah, yes. My favourite programming language (checks notes) HTML...
If your favourite programming language is HTML, we do not grant you the title of Nerd.
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What's the difference between a scripting language and a programming language?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Do you know what community you're in? Do you want to start a war?
There is no clear definition because there is a lot of overlap, especially when you get into the details, but:
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Scripting languages are often considered to be very high level and can commonly run without compilation. Making them great to automate tasks or create a simplified interaction/abstraction layer to a more complex program.
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Programming languages usually have much lower level access, and by extension they tend to be more complicated. In exchange for that, you get much more control. Although the access varies from Assembly to languages a C programmer would consider "scripting".
Although for every example, there is basically a counter example. Because programmers being who they are, see it as a challenge to do something with a language that others consider impossible or wrong.
For example, there are things like NodeOS, a "Lightweight operating system using Node.js as userspace."
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Do you know what community you're in? Do you want to start a war?
There is no clear definition because there is a lot of overlap, especially when you get into the details, but:
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Scripting languages are often considered to be very high level and can commonly run without compilation. Making them great to automate tasks or create a simplified interaction/abstraction layer to a more complex program.
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Programming languages usually have much lower level access, and by extension they tend to be more complicated. In exchange for that, you get much more control. Although the access varies from Assembly to languages a C programmer would consider "scripting".
Although for every example, there is basically a counter example. Because programmers being who they are, see it as a challenge to do something with a language that others consider impossible or wrong.
For example, there are things like NodeOS, a "Lightweight operating system using Node.js as userspace."
Scripting languages are often considered to be very high level and can commonly run without compilation. Making them great to automate tasks or create a simplified interaction/abstraction layer to a more complex program.
Then Python is not a scripting language.
Programming languages usually have much lower level access, and by extension they tend to be more complicated. In exchange for that, you get much more control.
Would you consider C to be more or less complicated than Perl?
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I bet there are people out there that have React as favorite language
Hell, they'll probably put that on a resume, and someone will hire them.
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I've had more than one job where Matlab was used extensively, guess my coworkers and I aren't real engineers.
I'd rather use something else, but if it's what the group already uses, fine, I'll do it
Also, I don't do a ton of true programming on it. It's a fancy calculator, and occasionally I make a GUI app with it
What a waste of money when Python is free
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Scripting languages are often considered to be very high level and can commonly run without compilation. Making them great to automate tasks or create a simplified interaction/abstraction layer to a more complex program.
Then Python is not a scripting language.
Programming languages usually have much lower level access, and by extension they tend to be more complicated. In exchange for that, you get much more control.
Would you consider C to be more or less complicated than Perl?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]The first comment worked as bait, but that last question is way too obvious.
Although just for fun:
Then Python is not a scripting language.
That is true. It is often used as one, but it was developed from the start as a general-purpose language.
Would you consider C to be more or less complicated than Perl?
You know about Python, Perl and C. You know the answer and you're just trying to incense people.
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Do you know what community you're in? Do you want to start a war?
There is no clear definition because there is a lot of overlap, especially when you get into the details, but:
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Scripting languages are often considered to be very high level and can commonly run without compilation. Making them great to automate tasks or create a simplified interaction/abstraction layer to a more complex program.
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Programming languages usually have much lower level access, and by extension they tend to be more complicated. In exchange for that, you get much more control. Although the access varies from Assembly to languages a C programmer would consider "scripting".
Although for every example, there is basically a counter example. Because programmers being who they are, see it as a challenge to do something with a language that others consider impossible or wrong.
For example, there are things like NodeOS, a "Lightweight operating system using Node.js as userspace."
For example, there are things like NodeOS, a "Lightweight operating system using Node.js as userspace."
No way this exists.
Wtf, it exists. Why would anyone do that to the world?
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I am old and a nerd and I don’t see Perl on here.
Wait… is it the tiny camel at the bottom?
Wait… is it the tiny camel at the bottom?
Yes, it appears it is. I thought it was Apache Camel but I was corrected as per the hump count.
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What a waste of money when Python is free
octave not a thing anymore?
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I am old and a nerd and I don’t see Perl on here.
Wait… is it the tiny camel at the bottom?
OCaml maybe
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I am old and a nerd and I don’t see Perl on here.
Wait… is it the tiny camel at the bottom?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]It is indeed the sedulous camel of perl!
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What a waste of money when Python is free
I mean, I agree with you, I'd never pay for a Matlab license for myself if I ever decide to go the private engineering consultant route. Just sharing my experience that yes, it's used in the professional world.
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Haha elixir is too obscure to be a nerd just us cool guys putting the fun in function
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I am a scientist and I used to use SAS for stats, and then started doing loads of bioinformatics in R. Institute decided they werent going to license SAS anymore, and didnt tell us. We get an email the day of, to say no more SAS. Then we have to drop evrything and concert all our SAS models into R.... Cue bitching from instiute leaders as to why we had to halt all publications. Idiots.
ouch, sorry about that.
that sucks
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The first comment worked as bait, but that last question is way too obvious.
Although just for fun:
Then Python is not a scripting language.
That is true. It is often used as one, but it was developed from the start as a general-purpose language.
Would you consider C to be more or less complicated than Perl?
You know about Python, Perl and C. You know the answer and you're just trying to incense people.
No, I'm trying to get people to think. If I laid out my full opinions on this subject (compilers and interpreters aren't that different anymore, even machine code often runs more like bytecode in many ways, "scripting" is a term that hides what's actually going on, etc.), then people get into endless debates. My questions are designed to pick apart assumptions.
Admittedly, people didn't appreciate when Socrates did this shit, either.
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I mean, I agree with you, I'd never pay for a Matlab license for myself if I ever decide to go the private engineering consultant route. Just sharing my experience that yes, it's used in the professional world.
It's just so weird to me. I've worked at a few big companies and Matlab was just kind of out of the question at any of them. It was Excel or Python
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I am old and a nerd and I don’t see Perl on here.
Wait… is it the tiny camel at the bottom?
Yep. It has no logo of its own, so it sometimes gets identified by the animal on the O'Reilly book
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As an engineer this is extremely offensive. MATLAB is for fucking tryhards.
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Yep. It has no logo of its own, so it sometimes gets identified by the animal on the O'Reilly book
