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From: Wolfgang Agnes <wagnes@jemoni.to>
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Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 08:28:51 -0300
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Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org writes:

> On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 07:31:13 -0000 (UTC)
> Sebastian <sebastian@here.com.invalid> boring babbled:
>>In comp.unix.programmer Muttley@dastartdlyhq.org wrote:
>>> syntax and mashed them together. Its no surprise Perl has been ditched in
>>> favour of Python just about everywhere for new scripting projects. And while
>>> I hate Pythons meangingful whitespace nonsense, I'd use it in preference
>>> to Perl any day.
>>
>>I think you've identified the one language that Python is better than.
>
> Yes, Python does have a lot of cons as a language. But its syntax lets
> newbies get up to speed quickly and there are a lot of libraries. However its
> dog slow and inefficient and I'm amazed its used as a key language for AI
> development - not traditionally a newbie coder area - when in that application
> speed really is essential. Yes it generally calls libraries written in C/C++
> but then why not just write the higher level code in C++ too?

You'd have to give up the REPL, for instance.