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For me, the biggest benefit to python is that it feels like executable pseudocode. The language gets out of the way of your domain level instructions. This is p
by lordnacho 2y ago
For me, the biggest benefit to python is that it feels like executable pseudocode. The language gets out of the way of your domain level instructions. This is probably why most non-programmers have the easiest time with python.
The more fancy stuff you add to it, the less attractive it becomes. Sure, most of these things have some sort of use, but I reckon most people do not get deep enough into python to understand all these little things.
- 7bit 2y agoI disagree. Adding "fancy stuff" by definition does not remove what made it attractive to you in the first place. You even acknowledge this in your second sentence. Something you don't know of is not capable to influence your opinion in any way. And when you know of it -- and dislike it -- just keep doing it the way you did before knowing it.
- pansa2 2y ago> And when you know of it -- and dislike it -- just keep doing it the way you did before knowing it. That breaks down as soon as you need to work with anyone else's code that uses the "fancy stuff".
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- 7bit 2y agoNo, it does not. There's always someone else better than you. That's no fault of the language
- rainingmonkey 2y agoLua is like this only moreso, and there's little fear of "progress" as large parts of the community have stuck with Lua5.1. Of course, Lua is batteries-not-included so there may be the problem of "progress" in external libraries; in practice things like Penlight barely change though.