Because I loved C, liked C++, but hated writing complex programs in either language (circa 1995) and somebody said "try python, it's object oriented and easy to

Because I loved C, liked C++, but hated writing complex programs in either language (circa 1995) and somebody said "try python, it's object oriented and easy to use" and I still use it today as my preferred language for a wide range of tasks. it just feels like a macro language on top of C/C++ in some ways. Numeric Python, then numarray, and numpy transformed my way of working with multidimensional data. Perl: could not stand the syntax or the language philosophy C++: too many footguns TCL: a bit primitive for what I wanted to do Java: ugh. just ugh. Go: not targeted at my use cases