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Not as any other language, but as any recently designed language. They (almost) all have good REPLs and a decent variety of data structures. It's easy to compa
by xapata 8y ago
Not as any other language, but as any recently designed language. They (almost) all have good REPLs and a decent variety of data structures.
It's easy to compare Python against C or Java and say how great it is, but against Rust or Dart, maybe not so great. However, popularity has its own benefits.
Still, compare against Go. There's a major difference in philosophy of deployment. Python's modularity causes dev ops problems, but it also means that any user can monkey patch whatever they need. With Go you need access to the original source, which isn't necessarily provided.
- taeric 8y agoFair, I meant as any comparable language. Though, I confess I suspect people could make more progress with C and the like than the advocates of python would like to acknowledge. And I'm quite fond of lisp nowadays.