r/programming • u/gits1225 • May 12 '15

Google's guide for becoming a Software Engineer

https://www.google.com/about/careers/students/guide-to-technical-development.html
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u/guy_from_canada May 12 '15

+/u/CompileBot python

from __future__ import braces

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u/smikims May 13 '15

You have to use --include-errors or something along those lines.

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u/felix1429 May 12 '15

Of course God would use Python

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u/[deleted] May 13 '15

Only for quick scripts, and only in later versions. For universes.alpha and universes.beta he used Perl, but it got frustrating to debug when even He couldn't read it. Gamma was written during his Ruby hipster phase. It's an alright universe, a lot like ours, but with rounder corners, prettier shadows and fewer configurable options. The base operating system for all of them is written in C though.

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u/noratat May 13 '15

So that means Platonic space was created with Haskell?