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so python is the IE of programming languages? yikes ;)

• nostrademons 11y ago
  Python 2 is, yep. And Java, and C++, and PHP, and all those other languages that were super popular at the turn of the millenium but now feel really dated. Actually, C++ has an even bigger claim to the title, because it now has "modern" versions that are much better, more standards-compliant, and have language features borrowed from newer languages...but a number of enterprises are stuck with no-exceptions, no-STL, no-move-semantics subsets because that's how all the existing code is written.
  • blub 11y ago
    The IE metaphor is terrible for programming languages :) I don't know about PHP, but C++ (and I suspect Java too) is backwards compatible and doesn't belong in the same class with Python. One can still compile older code and start using new features as they see fit, there is no hard break.
• deleted 11y ago
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