Python Is Easy. Go Is Simple. Simple != Easy

Re:Python Is Easy. Go Is Simple. Simple != Easy by somat on Monday November 27, 2023 @01:53PM (#38436510)

Python always felt well designed to me. Slow yes but it felt the the author really thought about how the language would go together. This is mainly a comparison to the other scripting languages available.

Pick your poison

  shell  #expand all the strings, but those pipes are nice, why can't more languages have pipes.
  awk    #not a bad language, but very very small, and an AWKward(see what I did there) implied data loop
  perl   #can do anything but the syntax is, well it is a real frankenstein monster of a syntax
  python #well designed syntax, has a strange block structure but at least it is always nicely formatted
  tcl    #all the strings! but other than that not half bad
  ruby   #pretty, but wow, that is a lot of magic
  php    #just graft on whatever to the language as you need it, don't worry about how it all fits together.

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Re:Python Is Easy. Go Is Simple. Simple != Easy by grumpyprole on Monday November 27, 2023 @02:06PM (#38436694)

Yes it's certainly better, but it definitely slithered out from under the same rock. There are even better languages, designed by folks whose minds where presumably never corrupted by anything on that list.

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