Ask HN: Why Did Python Win?

Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win? by ilikenwf on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @04:26PM (#37313476)

I really wish schools would teach compiled languages before scripting languages.

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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win? by bdcravens on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @04:31PM (#37313564)

What's the current CS101 standard? I know when I was in college in the late 1990s, it went from Pascal to C++ to Java.

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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win? by ilikenwf on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @04:45PM (#37313786)

In college, sure - they actually started us on C/C++ and then had us work in ASM for discrete math...

But in middle and high school now I believe they teach...whatever the teacher wants. So a lot of js, python, vb...

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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win? by masklinn on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @04:42PM (#37313744)

Great news, python is compiled, you got your wish.

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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win? by ilikenwf on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @04:44PM (#37313772)

Unless you use pyc it's only as compiled if you count php as compiled. Just in time bytecode compilation does not a compiled language make.

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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win? by masklinn on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @04:45PM (#37313784)

Maybe you should have been more precise when you made your wish to the monkey paw. Because python is certainly a valid answer to the comment you wrote.

Also I think you’re completely wrong but that’s neither here nor there.

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