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Given that there are literally thousands of huge projects using Python at massive scale and hundreds of kLOC, it's clearly not essential.

• erikj 9y ago
  "50 million cigarette smokers can't be wrong!"
  • ribosometronome 9y ago
    An appeal to popularity is not really a logical fallacy if someone is arguing that something is (effectively) unpopular.
    • cm2187 9y ago
      Depends if you define popular by most used or most liked. Most used: everyone pays taxes. Paying taxes is popular! A more practical example is javascript. I write some javascript, not because I like it (I hate it), but because that's the only way to make things happen in a browser. Javascript is popular. Does it mean it is liked / a good language?
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  • mpweiher 9y ago
    If the statement is "there are no cigarette smokers", then "there are 50 million" is a reasonable counterpoint.
• Koshkin 9y ago
  Code written in a statically typed language requires less testing. How is that not essential?
  • joshuamorton 9y ago
    Code written in dynamically typed language requires less code, which often means less surface area for failure, and less tests.
    • Koshkin 9y ago
      > often means No it does not, neither in theory nor in practice. Also, "less code" depends primarily on the language structure and not on whether the language is dynamically typed or not. (Haskell, for example, is more terse than Python.)
      • joshuamorton 9y ago
        >No it does not, neither in theory nor in practice. I've yet to come across something that was fewer loc in C++/java than in python. That said, this is true even if I use pytype.