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[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 119 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Easy to learn, hard to master, used for things it wasn’t created for.

Yep.

[–] dreadgoat@kbin.social 94 points 1 year ago

used for things it wasn’t created for

I think Python gets a point here, as it is very good at doing what it was created for.
Javascript even sucks at its stated goal.

[–] MaximumOverflow@lemmy.ca 64 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't master Javascript, ever. You just become accustomed to the madness and stop caring, while sometimes doing things right.

[–] PeWu@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago
[–] MaxElFantasma@mujico.org 9 points 1 year ago

used for things it wasn’t created for.

so, like 90% of all programming languages

[–] Reborn2966@feddit.it 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

what was the original goal of python?

[–] Kerrigor@kbin.social 40 points 1 year ago

sssssssssssssss

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago

The goal for Python 3 was to be an all purpose language that the general population could use for their everyday computing tasks

[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looking nice and upsetting people.

[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago
[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

But they're both programming languages...