I have some pretty complex feelings about this. Many people end up at a given programming language because they are fleeing something else, rather than being n

I have some pretty complex feelings about this. Many people end up at a given programming language because they are fleeing something else, rather than being necessarily drawn to it, and I know that in some senses, Python was my reaction to having to deal with what I didn't like about Perl. One of the larger factors was dealing with CPAN. I was always having to hunt down modules, which would do maybe seventy percent of what I needed, or a another module, that would cover a different seventy percent. And then comes the question of, "Can I get this to run on Windows?" Meanwhile, Python made hay with its enormous standard library and certainly xkcd made many references to it. Now people tell me that the standard library is where code goes to die and I get sad all over again ...