Ah Python, you have spoiled me for all other languages

[Tim Daneliuk]

On 05/22/2015 10:29 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 12:58 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> I think Python is a prettier
>> language visually than either Lua or Ruby, but they're in the ball-park.
>> Both languages have their warts and quirks, but if Python were declared
>> illegal overnight[1] I'd probably have no trouble adapting to Ruby or Lua.
>> Python would still be my first love, but these two languages make a
>> reasonable rebound language.
> 
> A good start. Toy programs don't always tell the whole story, though.
> How good are the three languages at making your code reliable in the
> face of user action? My hobby-horse, Unicode, is a notable flaw in
> many languages - if you ask the user for information (in the most
> obvious way for whatever environment you're in, be that via a web
> browser request, or a GUI widget, or text entered at the console), can
> it cope equally with all the world's languages? What if you want to
> manipulate that text - is it represented as a sequence of codepoints
> (Python 3), UTF-16 code units (JavaScript), UTF-8 bytes (quite a few),
> or "bytes in whatever codepage your system was set to" (anything that
> hasn't cared)?
> 
> ChrisA
> 


Lo these many years ago, I argued that Python is a whole lot more than 
a programming language:

   https://www.tundraware.com/TechnicalNotes/Python-Is-Middleware/

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