Is Python the Esperanto of programming languages?

[Jack Diederich]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:53:00PM +0000, Andy Jewell wrote:
> 2) What film was that?  Really - I didn't know there *was* a film which 
> featured Esperanto.  That's probably because it starred William Shatner...


Erik mentioned it in by name is his reply:

:And you're wrong.  Incubus _was_ a crowning achievement.  It was
:positively, uproariously hilarious.

imagine Shatner doing his Shatner thing but in Esperanto, definitely
uproariously hilarious.

> 3) I think Python is the best thing since Bubblegum, Sliced Bread, Oberon etc. 
> etc.  I'm serious: I REALLY LIKE PYTHON.  I use it at work and "play" totally 
> out of choice.  If I was trolling, I'd have said something like...  No, 
> actually, I won't say it: it would give you more ammo than you need :-)

OK, I'll admit I thought it was poorly constructed praise instead of a troll.

I really like python as well.  Like a lot of users I know a handful of other
programming languages fluently enough to be a grammar nazi, and many more
well enough to be able to read them.  But if I can help it I'll use python
for the vast majority of projects for years to come.
[!plug warning!] the namesake company for my email address has a nearly pure
python product (some hot spots written in C) with a decent size code base
(20KLOCs).  I couldn't imagine being able to write it as quickly or confidently
in any other language.  Rewriting hot spots in C is almost a pleasure as well,
especially as compared to dealing with perlXS, which is a mess.  Not to mention
that 20K lines of python would be some unmanagably larger number if I had
written it in C++.  Or only slightly larger and unreadable if it was written
in perl.

As for human languages, I'll be Mr American here.   I've had three years
of French, two years of each Latin and Spanish, and I couldn't order a sandwich
in any of them to save my life (an exageration, but not far from the truth).

-jackdied