Best way to check if there is internet?

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, 26 Feb 2022 at 09:04, Barry Scott <barry at barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
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> > On 25 Feb 2022, at 18:07, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer <arj.python at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Normally people put Python in the scripting category.
> > I learnt typed languages like C++ and Java at first.
> > People who learn languages like these tend to put
> > Python in a non-serious category. The post was
> > more ironic than litteral.
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> I think that python is a serious language, as I do C and C++.
> What is key to a problem is which language is best to solve the
> problem (given you have a free choice).
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Exactly. What language is best for a situation depends on myriad factors:

* Development convenience
* Execution performance
* Language/library tools
* Interaction with other parts of a system
* Corporate politics
* The ability to use other people's code
* Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

What's the best language for modding Kerbal Space Program? C#, because
ultimately, anything else will require a C# wrapper.

What's the best language for building a scientific simulation of
particle collisions? Probably something high level like Python, backed
by some hard number-crunching work in Fortran.

What's the best language for writing a browser-based game? JavaScript.

What's the best language for swearing in? Ah, that one I can't help
you with, although I've heard good things about French. :)

The only languages that are "not serious languages" in that sense are
deliberate toys. Chef, Piet, Whitespace, Ook, these are non-serious
languages that you shouldn't be writing production code in. Anything
else? If it's right for your purposes, use it, and don't let anyone
shame you for it.

There are almost no "right" and "wrong" design decisions. Your
decision has consequences, and if you accept those consequences, the
decision was not wrong.

Dismissing a mainstream language as "not serious" is, in effect,
telling everyone who uses that language "you're doing it wrong". And
that's an insult that should not be made lightly.

ChrisA