/lit/ - Literature

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>Every language that you use is compiled several times. Let's take a web application written in Python, which is interpreted in C, which compiles to x86 assembly, which the assembler translates into "straight binary", which the computer uses to effect change at the level of transistors and logic gates.

yeah, those are translations to bytecode and to assembly which are not really human readable though

>What in 1978 could be done only by a team of highly trained experts working in assembly can now be done by a mediocre dude who learned Python a month ago.

what exactly? dunno about assembly but i know c and it's not that hard to use it for most of basic tasks you can learn in 1 month of learning python.
and then, to really use python in practice one need to learn its libs or frameworks for the specific task and it will take months on top of basic cs knowledge, especially considering how shitty those probably are

also python is shit, ruby rules, ruby is the most kawaii language existing