Re:Why MIT Switched from Scheme to Python (2009)
by dTal on Monday April 24, 2017 @07:46PM
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Well, that tells us something about you. But it doesn't exactly get to the heart of why people like writing libraries for Python.
My theory: it was the first language to take a human factors approach to language design. Not the best, but the first. This design philosophy has the simple consequence that Python programs are by and large incredibly easy to read, understand, and modify, compared to its contemporaries. "Network effects" did the rest.
My theory: it was the first language to take a human factors approach to language design. Not the best, but the first. This design philosophy has the simple consequence that Python programs are by and large incredibly easy to read, understand, and modify, compared to its contemporaries. "Network effects" did the rest.