What Language Is Today's Python as Described by Paul Graham in 'Python Paradox'?

Re:What Language Is Today's Python as Described by Paul Grah... by CyberFonic on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @05:09AM (#9332713)

I think it still would be Python. Can't think of any language that has leap-frogged the Python that Paul Graham described back 11 years ago.

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Re:What Language Is Today's Python as Described by Paul Grah... by dottrap on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @05:39AM (#9332793)

From how I interpret the linked article, it's not about language features, but the willingness of people to embrace/challenge better ideas that might not be mainstream.

    And people don't learn Python because it will get them a job; they learn it because they genuinely like to program and aren't satisfied with the languages they already know.

I might suggest Haskell (re-emergent of pure functional, but statically typed) and Go (improved type system but without resorting to language lawyering and re-emergence of coroutines (besides Lua)).

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Re:What Language Is Today's Python as Described by Paul Grah... by spacemanmatt on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @08:43AM (#9333521)

That pretty much covers why I elected to pick up Go and Clojure lately. I actually love programming, and my old tools were feeling rusty.

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Re:What Language Is Today's Python as Described by Paul Grah... by wodenokoto on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @05:45AM (#9332811)

> And people don't learn Python because it will get them a > job; they learn it because they genuinely like to program > and aren't satisfied with the languages they already know.

Today people very much learn Python to get a job. It is listed as the top language for machine learning / data science (or at least top 5, depending on who you ask) and that is a very hot field job wise currently.

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