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> Python is a much saner language than R That's like saying that cat turds smell much better than dog turds. Maybe it's technically true, but let's not split

• epgui 4y ago
  Haha I wouldn’t say it like that, but I’m pretty sure we feel the same way deep down. Regardless of how true your comment might be, this can seem a bit hostile or condescending to people who don’t have a “cleaner” reference point for language design. Or, in the “fog of war” of competing alternatives, it may even appear unreasonable to experienced programmers: we’re so used to thinking that everything is a tradeoff that over time we can forget that some things really can be “just better” than other things. Most of the time when we hear such claims, it comes from a place of subjective preference or over-generalization, so our brains pattern match strongly against that. And at the end of the day, as a practical matter, the best camera is the one you carry with you, and the best tool is the one you can use.