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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You... you shut up! Excuse me, I have to go take a shower:-) (/s, edit: to be clear on both sentences here)

Anyway you're right (no /s) - at one point it filled in a gap between the likes of C++ and Assembly on the one hand and shell scripting (bash, awk, grep, sed, each with its own syntax and very little of that shared in common with one another) and I guess Fortran on the other. I still prefer it enormously to everything else - it's quirky but fun:-) - though I get why a less experienced person should choose Python and stick with it, even as we all wish that there was another alternative that would work better than either.

And since I can't resist: Perl is 8-20x faster than Python, and major websites like DuckDuckGo and booking.com use it. Sigh....I guess it's time for that shower now:-).