C is too cold. Python is too hot. What is just right?
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Python is 34 years old already. That means, someone who was already working as a programmer when Python came out would have to be about 54 years or older now.
I wonder why people still think it's the hot new thing.
When Python came out, C was 19 years old. So Python is almost twice as old now as C was when Python came out.
I was thinking more along the line of Goldilocks and the three bears. What is the language that feels just right to you (given the obvious issues with C and Python)
Makes sense what you are saying.
When it comes to programming languages, I like to think of them as tools for a job. All languages have advantages and downsides.
For server software Java is by far the best (especially if it's supposed to scale). For web frontends it's TypeScript. For very simple scripts that mostly call other tools it's bash. For more complex scripts, non-performance-critical data processing and small projects it's Python. For microcontroller work, C. For working on more performant microcontrollers C+Lua. For tests Groovy is surprisingly helpful. For game development GDScript or whatever your chosen environment supports.
The rest is just syntax. It doesn't really matter whether I use curly braces or indentation.
I do like the old if-endif block style, but sadly that doesn't really exist in mainstream languages anymore. Lua is the only thing that's kinda similar, but they only use "end", negating the advantage of being able to easier see where the "for" ends in a sea of "ifs".
I guess bash does something similar too, but "fi" and "esac" really break my fingers (and then they don't even do "elihw").
Visual Basic.
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Python is my "native" programming language, it's the first I learned, and many of my leaps in understanding of the language have resulted from thinking "Wait, Python is a smart ass. I bet it can do..."
If we're continuing this analogy, did python or js take more drugs?
Python's on edibles. JS is on a cocktail of every psychedelic known to man and has been continuously since 1995.
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