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[Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer]

Normally people put Python in the scripting category.
I learnt typed languages like C++ and Java at first.
People who learn languages like these tend to put
Python in a non-serious category. The post was
more ironic than litteral.

After 5 years of following the mailing lists i realised
that there is more than the eyes meet. My hobby has
always been language engineering / compiler theory
and just recently i realised that Python is pretty serious about
language features.

I have been following language feature proposals from various
languages. Some decide to avoid Python's route,
but others have been trying hard to catch up with Python.
One gleaming example is the switch case. JS recently proposed pattern
matching, referencing Python and explaining why the proposal
is a cool treatment of the usecase.

As a side note, if by scripting we mean OS commands,
then Python started as a sysadmin language.