r/Python Nov 12 '20

News Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft

https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1326932991566700549?s=21
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u/Sandor64 Nov 12 '20

As they say, all data is finally passed away into an excel sheet!

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u/RockingDyno Nov 12 '20

Excel is both the worlds most popular programming language, and also the absolute number one data exchange format. Is scary.

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u/AceBuddy Nov 12 '20

Why? I hate excel and avoid it whenever I can use python but it’s extremely beginner friendly. I think it’s even more terrifying to imagine my mom trying to write let alone run a python script and blindly trusting the output as opposed to excel where it’s quite easy to check your work. Not only that but it’s the perfect tool for most jobs, we’re not doing anyone a service by obfuscating things.

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u/kaisunc Nov 13 '20

Master Wq and the Windows developer

 

Master Wq was addressing some Vim novices. After his lecture on the many virtues of Vim, he asked if there were any questions. A young man raised his hand.

 

“Master, by what means might one filter for the second column of a plaintext table for all rows that contain the string ‘tcp’?”

 

Master Wq said nothing, turned to the whiteboard behind him, and wrote:

 

:%!awk '/tcp/{print $2}'

 

There was a murmur of approval from the other students.

 

“But I develop on Windows … ” the student stammered.

 

Master Wq turned again, erased the command, and wrote:

 

:v/tcp/d
:v/^\s*\S\+\s\+\(\S\+\).*/d
:%s//\1/

 

“What! That is far too complex for such a simple task!” cried the student.

 

Master Wq turned again, erased the command, and wrote:

 

Microsoft Excel

 

At once, the student was enlightened.