On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 03:39 am, Paul Rubin wrote: > I still do my everyday stuff in Python and I'd like to get more > conversant with stuff like numpy, but it feels like an old-fashioned > language these days.
"Old fashioned"? With await/async just added to the language, and type annotations? And comprehensions and iterators? Admittedly type annotations are mostly of interest to large projects with many developers and a huge code base. But the rest? Comprehensions may have been around for a decade or two in Haskell, but most older languages don't have them. I'm pretty sure Java doesn't. Does Javascript? Comprehensions feel like a fancy new language feature to me. The whole asynchronous programming features are extremely new and "hip". What sort of things do you consider "new-fashioned" if Python is old-fashioned? I'm reminded of this quote from the timbot: In many ways, it's a dull language, borrowing solid old concepts from many other languages & styles: boring syntax, unsurprising semantics, few automatic coercions, etc etc. But that's one of the things I like about it. -- Tim Peters, 16 Sep 1993 -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
