Nah, it's also a very fine language for getting an idea down quickly. Might not have the niceties purists like, but perhaps that's exactly it's a great languag

Nah, it's also a very fine language for getting an idea down quickly. Might not have the niceties purists like, but perhaps that's exactly it's a great language for that. It's like executable pseudocode, and unlike other languages, all the ceremony is optional. People flocked to it way before it became a "must" for ML and CS thanks to that ecosystem becoming dominant.