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I wrote 20 short programs in Python yesterday. It was wonderful. Perl, I’m leaving you.
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[A Cueball-like friend is talking to Cueball, who is floating in the sky.]
Friend: You’re flying! How?
Cueball: Python!
Cueball: I learned it last night! Everything is so simple!
Cueball: Hello world is just print “Hello, World!”
Friend: I dunno… Dynamic typing? Whitespace?
Cueball: Come join us! Programming is fun again! It’s a whole new world up here!
Friend: But how are you flying?
Cueball: I just typed ‘import antigravity’
Friend: That’s it?
Cueball: …I also sampled everything in the medicine cabinet for comparison.
Cueball: But I think this is the python.
There aren’t good languages and bad languages, there are better tools for a particular job and worse.
Javascript is widely regarded as a bad programming language even though for many use cases it is the best tool for the job.