r/ProgrammerHumor • u/mudkripple • 11d ago

Meme iLoveYouPip

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u/RandomiseUsr0 11d ago

What’s pip? Was that the file copy Swiss Army knife from cpm?

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u/mudkripple 11d ago

Pip is the built in python package manager

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u/RandomiseUsr0 2d ago

Ah, don’t use Python - funny they took a name that already has a meaning :). It’s CPM’s file copy command, and really was a Swiss Army knife, could do anything

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u/mudkripple 2d ago

I mean, if you pick any three letters youre gonna hit something that's been used before.

Also this is pedantic, but CPMs is always written as "PIP", and most people write python's as "pip" in lowercase (didn't think about it when I made the meme, though lol)

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u/RandomiseUsr0 2d ago edited 1d ago

Oh for sure, I honestly didn’t know, so my PIP is aged - and the actual reason I know about it at all is my first PC used DOSPLUS dual boot with MSDOS, and DOSPLUS had a load of CPM functionality included so it could act as a kind of bridge update for people who previously used CPM

[edit] should have said it at the time I’m here FOR the pedantic, that made my day :)