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Quote from: TheBiggerFish on June 03, 2017, 01:04:39 pm

Let's see this 'real-life applications of Python' thing.
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Once the giant snake corpses are cleared away, the next lecture compares Python with other languages in terms of usefulness to magic users. Python dates back thousands of years, having only recently been adopted by mortals, and was popularised by the great Egyptian sorcerors, who used it to contruct temples, pyramids and statues for the pharoahs. It is useful for moving large masses, creating water for things such as irrigation, and the manipulation of natural organisms, but does not function as well when it comes to creating the most complex and sophisticated sorceries such as illusions or magical projectiles. Mistakes in Python may simply create physical distortions, but have been known to create tedious portals to the underworld, mass flooding by the hyperspacial Duat, and even horrific breaches into Izfit, the sea of chaos.

The popular downfall of Python came after the development of C#, which was used against the armies of the pharoah by Moses. C# is capable of controlling incredibly large classes of objects and sources of power by referring to them simply, but trying to do too many things with it will simply fail and likely break the strength of the user, shattering their mind. For example C# would be the best tool if one wanted to control the direction of a hundred-strong horde of undead, but would be less effective in allowing them to do different tasks. Mistakes seldom do anything other than catastrophically vary the cereberal pressure of the person making them.

Java, or the version involving magical runic writings, Javascript, is a relative newcomer to the world of magical coding languages. Very results-oriented, it involves some elements of voodoo and other systems. It is better for any smaller or trickier task the other languages fail at, and is the best for magical projectiles, illusions, control of magical beings, and other such messy things. It is closest to witchcraft among the languages, and mistakes will generally result in a spell that does something similar but not identical to the intended practice.

They don't say much about Perl directly, but from what you've gathered it is very dangerous and relies on powerful materials. An archaic technique used by the sort of people one wouldn't associate with, mistakes are usually preferable to whatever the user was trying to do.


A student notices your frantic note-jotting, and kindly offers you a flier on introductory lectures to each language. You're a bit out of your depth at the moment, and should probably pick one or two to gain some understanding of.

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Quote from: TheBiggerFish on March 19, 2017, 07:02:22 am

Bob Howard

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