Re:Because It's Not Fun Enough: why languages fail
by m463 on Monday August 10, 2026 @10:24PM
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I liked perl, and later python.
Python was harder to write - it was less expressive to me than perl, which could say stuff like "unless <bleh>" while python would require "if not <bleh>"
it was more regular, more compact and was visually easier to read
but it was the python standard library that kept me going back, because I could solve lots of problems without reinventing the wheel, or becoming a sysadmin to install a package my lowly script required.
Python was harder to write - it was less expressive to me than perl, which could say stuff like "unless <bleh>" while python would require "if not <bleh>"
it was more regular, more compact and was visually easier to read
but it was the python standard library that kept me going back, because I could solve lots of problems without reinventing the wheel, or becoming a sysadmin to install a package my lowly script required.