I think that one must understand that Python is programming language. I quote Guido van Rossum:
If you can't express yourself in Python you should choose another language.
I share your anger in 'disliking' some language. In my case it's english - I 'like' language which has no future tense, no gender, no articles before noun, you pronounce exactly as you write etc, etc (this is my mother tongue)
Quote:Typically when you ask a programmer to explain to a lay person what a programming language is, they will say that it is how you tell a computer what to do. But if that was all, why would they be so passionate about programming languages when they talk among themselves?
In reality, programming languages are how programmers express and communicate ideas — and the audience for those ideas is other programmers, not computers. The reason: the computer can take care of itself, but programmers are always working with other programmers, and poorly communicated ideas can cause expensive flops. In fact, ideas expressed in a programming language also often reach the end users of the program — people who will never read or even know about the program, but who nevertheless are affected by it.
Think of the incredible success of companies like Google or Facebook. At the core of these are ideas — ideas about what computers can do for people. To be effective, an idea must be expressed as a computer program, using a programming language. The language that is best to express an idea will give the team using that language a key advantage, because it gives the team members — people! — clarity about that idea. The ideas underlying Google and Facebook couldn't be more different, and indeed these companies' favorite programming languages are at opposite ends of the spectrum of programming language design. And that’s exactly my point.
True story: The first version of Google was written in Python. The reason: Python was the right language to express the original ideas that Larry Page and Sergey Brin had about how to index the web and organize search results. And they could run their ideas on a computer, too!
If you can't express yourself in Python you should choose another language.
I share your anger in 'disliking' some language. In my case it's english - I 'like' language which has no future tense, no gender, no articles before noun, you pronounce exactly as you write etc, etc (this is my mother tongue)
I'm not 'in'-sane. Indeed, I am so far 'out' of sane that you appear a tiny blip on the distant coast of sanity. Bucky Katt, Get Fuzzy
Da Bishop: There's a dead bishop on the landing. I don't know who keeps bringing them in here. ....but society is to blame.
Da Bishop: There's a dead bishop on the landing. I don't know who keeps bringing them in here. ....but society is to blame.