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A comment on Peter Norvig's “pytudes” for Advent of Code 2020. Parent comment

Re:Peter Norvig's “pytudes” for Advent of Code 2020 by Barrin92 on Friday January 08, 2021 @02:00AM (#25682303)
>what looks like exclusively, in Python rather than other interesting languages?

probably because he cares more about the problems and less about the language and python is a pleasant general purpose language (and ubiquitous in AI research)

I never understood why many software developers are so focused on languages rather than on problems, the language at the end of the day doesn't really matter, unless the problem is in a very peculiar domain.

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Re:Peter Norvig's “pytudes” for Advent of Code 2020 by bmitc on Friday January 08, 2021 @02:03AM (#25682324)
It is less about hyper-focus on language and more of a curiosity. Yes, I personally don't like Python, but I would have the same curiosity if he used <x>, had written a book using <x>, and if Google heavily used <x>.
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