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Python got a reputation for being good for quick prototyping. Python had an easy to use CLI and supportive docs that made it easy to throw things together. Ca
by meltyness 3y ago
Python got a reputation for being good for quick prototyping.
Python had an easy to use CLI and supportive docs that made it easy to throw things together.
Case-in-point, the language literally includes functions like:
dir
That facilitate treating library objects as simple directories of functionality.
Default arithmetic library supports APA.
There's just a lot of stuff that's frictionless in Python, where Ruby has sprawling and unintuitive syntax, and mandatory programming constructs.