Python is the first language that clicked with my brain as well and in college I often used it to prototype homework algorithms before translating them into the

Python is the first language that clicked with my brain as well and in college I often used it to prototype homework algorithms before translating them into the language I needed to actually submit my work in. I have nothing but love for python as a language. At the same time even when I used it heavily I never saw it as anything more than a scripting language to sit in front of some tool that was written in a language I couldn't be fucked to learn at that moment (numpy and scipy were used heavily throughout my college career). If I'm being honest I don't understand how anyone could get as worked up about a language as the people in this thread have. At the end of the day most of us are still writing unportable imperative code that runs like shit. Maybe blaming language is how we cope with our own failure as engineers.