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There's a difference between hating Python, and saying (I'm guessing is the comment that spurred this one) this: "I try to be a good sport about it, but every t
by squeaky-clean 7y ago
There's a difference between hating Python, and saying (I'm guessing is the comment that spurred this one) this: "I try to be a good sport about it, but every time I write python I want to quit software engineering.", like a top-level comment below says.
If you had to write Python, would you also want to quit software engineering? Would you go back to Fortran instead of Python?
Of course you're allowed to hate Python but someone saying "every time I write python I want to quit software" is either extreme hyperbole, some tangentially related issue like depression, or just no language at all would make them happy enough.
- TheRealKing 7y agoIn my opinion, as a computational researcher, Python was not really meant to be a Scientific Computing Programming environment. It was a big historical mistake to go in that direction. In the near future, hopefully, it will be replaced, by a better alternative. and believe me, for most people who do not speak highly of Fortran, when it comes to developing a new language for scientific computing, they pretty-much end up reinventing Fortran.