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Re:Advice on learning Python efficiently by xamuel on Thursday December 15, 2016 @12:36PM (#13186382)
>My biggest complaint about python is how easy it is to learn

This X 1000. Some Python candidates declare themselves professionals when their code is unsuitable for production.

If you're gonna spend many thousands of hours using a language, don't use initial learn-time as the one thing to optimize for!

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Re:Advice on learning Python efficiently by dwaynecrooks on Thursday December 15, 2016 @01:26PM (#13186837)
> If you're gonna spend many thousands of hours using a language, don't use initial learn-time as the one thing to optimize for!

That reminds me of this wonderful talk by Rich Hickey called Simple Made Easy, https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy.

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