> I have no idea how anyone lives with it for anything except writing extremely repetitive, formulaic, and superficial code, because having to dig into its guts feels like a nightmare.
It’s interesting that Python powers an outsized chunk of contemporary scientific research.
Perhaps its fitness for purpose is a result of its messiness, or perhaps that messiness maps better to the way that many people think? Would a more rigorously-typed alternate-universe Python have been as successful?
It’s interesting that Python powers an outsized chunk of contemporary scientific research.
Perhaps its fitness for purpose is a result of its messiness, or perhaps that messiness maps better to the way that many people think? Would a more rigorously-typed alternate-universe Python have been as successful?