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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win? by win311fwg on Monday December 22, 2025 @11:32AM (#46355566)
English laughs at their supposed dominance.
Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win? by __MatrixMan__ on Monday December 22, 2025 @11:42AM (#46355693)
Math peers through a microscope and smiles at all the Earth languages. So cute.
Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win? by win311fwg on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @11:17AM (#46366522)
Math isn't a language, of course. What we oft refer to as "standard notation" is, but it is as earthy as all the others.
Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win? by __MatrixMan__ on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @01:31PM (#46367845)
> of course

It's reasonable to disagree, but let's not pretend that some alternative is the obvious choice.

The laws of physics as a program and math as its language is just as good as any other framing. And its a short logical hop to expect that more than one civilization would discover that language.