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Completely out of context, sorry, but couldn't avoid to note this: "Being easy to pick up and progress quickly towards developing larger and more complicated a
by santiagobasulto 10y ago
Completely out of context, sorry, but couldn't avoid to note this:
"Being easy to pick up and progress quickly towards developing larger and more complicated applications, Python is becoming increasingly ubiquitous in computing environments".
Why would you change the order of the subject in such an unreadable way? Isn't much easier to say:
"Python is becoming increasingly ubiquitous in computing environments, as it's easy to pick up and progress quickly towards developing larger and more complicated applications"
I'm not expert in writing, it just sounded weird. If anyone can explains what's going on there, really appreciated.
- bbctol 10y agoSounds to me like they started with something like "Being easy to pick up, Python is becoming increasingly ubiquitous..." and then made the old engineer-as-writer error of adding extra specificity.
- roboguy12 10y agoI forget the second half of the line, but one of my high school English teachers would always say "being is bad, ...", meaning there's rarely ever a time when you'd want to use it over some other way of saying it. I guess it's along the same lines as "don't end a sentence in a preposition".
- xapata 10y agoThe phrase "increasingly ubiquitous" doesn't make sense. Something is either ubiquitous or not. There's no such thing as increasingly infinite, for example. It's best to avoid passive voice, but sometimes that requires difficult thinking about who is taking action. In this case, who is causing Python to be deployed in more computing environments? How about this revision: "With increasing frequency, software engineers and system administrators are choosing Python, because the language is easy to learn and productive for developing large, complex applications." I'm not sure that's how I'd explain Python's popularity.