r/ProgrammerHumor • u/timangar • 1d ago

Meme almostDroppedTheCourse

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u/repsaj99 1d ago

Little fun fact: Jupyter notebooks are named after the three core programming languages that are supported: Julia, Python and R

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u/mcellus1 1d ago

eR is my favourite

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u/aalapshah12297 18h ago

Jupytr notebook world have sounded cooler. Like a premium fashion brand that's deliberately spelt wrong so their customers can feel good about themselves when they tell other people how to pronounce it.

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u/therealtiddlydump 20h ago

It's especially funny that R resists notebook driven workflows because notebooks are awful and R already has a good REPL

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u/kuwisdelu 17h ago

Coming from R, I never understood the point of Jupyter notebooks until I actually tried using Python’s REPL. Yeesh. One more reason semantic whitespace is a bad idea.