what’s the objectively best programming language
What high level languages do is save you the effort of writing your programs in machine language. Effort is roughly length (in tokens, not characters). So the best language is the one that makes your programs shortest.
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If the part of the programming work that involves typing the characters is the biggest part of the effort, then you're definitely doing it wrong!
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Less typing usually means the language abstracts the complexity, which means less thinking.
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So can we say it is python?
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If you count whitespace tokens in Python it ain't terse.
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Or any number of other languages.
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I argue it’s whichever language is required to best get the job done given the platform(s) you’re targeting. Currently, my objectively best language is dartlang. I don’t care about the language. I care about the results.
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One with top features on the compiler that supports it
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@paulg - Is there a good book or blog about how and why Python became so popular and massively adopted? Especially by the data science community. More of an historian account rather than the technical aspect. I understand the technical aspects already.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Shortest? I would argue that it's the language which requires the least amount of thinking.
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