I can definitely understand wanting to claw your way deep into the heart of a language. But, I mean, any language except Python.
I like Python becauseI can definitely understand wanting to claw your way deep into the heart of a language. But, I mean, any language except Python.
I like Python because I've never felt I had to get that good at it. As opposed to - as an extreme opposite example - the enormous time investment you need to make to both write good C++, and read other people's C++.
The main advantage of Python is that it is very clear and easy to read, and that you don't have to learn much to get things done. If I had to work with someone who wrote Python this way it is sometimes written in this book, or someone who used half of the knowledge in this book, I would be seriously annoyed....more