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Written by Jacques Chester on 2024-12-03 at 21:18

Anyone claiming that Python is a simple language needs to explain why densely written, thousand page books about it exist.

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Written by Ludic 🧛 on 2024-12-03 at 21:34

@jacques My hot take is that, performing my daily mention of Rich Hickey, they're confusing "easy" with "simple". I like plenty about the language and know tons of extremely talented developers that use it, but it's also the weapon of choice for most of the least-talented people I've met in the data space.

This year, I met a professional that has been using it for a decade that didn't know what a hash map was, they thought dictionaries were just lists with a funny access pattern.

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Written by Jacques Chester on 2024-12-03 at 21:57

@ludicity I was ruined by Ruby, which ostensibly has much more magic and syntactic sugar. But none of my Ruby books runs to a thousand pages!

And to be fair to your professional, dict is ordered, so…

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