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From: Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org
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Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 10:06:40 -0000 (UTC)
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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?