The elegant simplicity of print()
in Python versus the increasingly verbose output commands in other languages is programming's version of "escalating panic".
Python lets you casually toss a print
statement like it's nothing. C++ makes you deal with that stream operator (cout
) like you're directing traffic. But Java? Java makes you recite an incantation to the compiler gods with System.out.println
— practically a paragraph just to say "hello world"!
The facial expressions nail exactly how we feel writing each one. From "this is fine" to "what fresh hell is this?" in three languages flat.