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What's the dumbest reason you've learned a programming language? (programming.dev)

submitted 11 months ago by andioop@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 54 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Learned Python to try and hack into a porn site.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Well, were you able to hack into the porn site? Python seems like an odd choice for hacking a website.

[–] xuv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I almost did this for a different reason, people choose python because it has some pretty good web automation/scraping libraries to work with.

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