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by japanman185 897 days ago
Disregarding the fact that python is an awful programming language for anthing other than jupyter notebooks
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Another one that hasn't seen UNIX scripting in shell languages or Perl, Apache modules, before Python came to be.
I wrote tons of perl in my life. I would rather keep writing perl than touching python. Every time I see a nice utility and see that it's written in python - tab closed.
Perl code is nice to write, as long as we don't need to debug scripts written by someone else.
Facts are objective; "Python is awful" is your opinion.
This comment is really just bordering on a rule violation and doesn’t add to the conversation at all.
Ah I'd say the exact opposite, python in general is pretty good but jupyter sucks because the syntax isn't compatible with regular python and I avoid it like the plague.
What does a jupyter notebook have to do with python syntax?
Take the code you find in an average notebook, copy it to a .py text file, run it with python. Does it run? In my experience the answer is usually 'no' because of some extra-ass syntax sugar jupyter has that doesn't exist in python.