[lukashrb]

> Peter Norvig here. I came to Python not because I thought it was a better/acceptable/pragmatic Lisp, but because it was better pseudocode.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803815

[X6S1x6Okd1st]

Choosing python as your interview language seems like just an unfair advantage at this point.

And then choosing python for complex high performance work seems like asking for a headache at this point.

[ithrow]

and then:

In terms of programming-in-the-large, at Google and elsewhere, I think that language choice is not as important as all the other choices: if you have the right overall architecture, the right team of programmers, the right development process that allows for rapid development with continuous improvement, then many languages will work for you; if you don't have those things you're in trouble regardless of your language choice.