Python is a simple language. Numpy is a simple language. Pandas is a simple language. Scikit is a simple language. Matplotlib is a simple...https://twitter.com/DRMacIver/status/826564584525922309 …
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Replying to @mundoplano
they really aren't, even taken on their own, TBH
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Replying to @DRMacIver @mundoplano
Definition of simple varies? What are we comparing to?
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Replying to @o_guest @mundoplano
I think it's reasonable to say that python is outside of most definitions of simple. Compare to e.g. JS for similar
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Replying to @DRMacIver @mundoplano
Haven't done more than a couple hundred lines of JS. But I'm not a developer so I'm biased in many ways.
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Replying to @o_guest @mundoplano
I don't strongly recommend it. I much prefer python. But the relative language complexity is rather large
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Replying to @o_guest @mundoplano
yeah. JS has some some weird semantics, but a relatively small core of them. Python just has a lot of different rules
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Replying to @DRMacIver @mundoplano
It certainly does. Not a big problem imho.
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Replying to @o_guest
the more rules you have the more ways things can be subtly different / wrong in unexpected ways
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Like natural language. Somehow we cope. Yeah, though, can't wait for python to be easier for students off Linux/Mac actually.
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Replying to @o_guest @DRMacIver
The confusions 2 vs 3 causes is needless.
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