Python - no arguments, please
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I am NOT criticizing Python and I implore the reader please do not start nor engage in any “flame war” on Python. I have programmed in a number of different languages over my 40 years as a developer. My current languages that I use the most are C# and T-SQL. I see that Python is popular, or at least appears so. What value-add(s) does Python bring that I cannot get now in C#? What disadvantages are there, if any, to using Python over C#? Is Python a better general purpose language, or is it better at some specific niche(s) in development? I would really like to get a clearer picture of why using Python along with, or in place of, C# would be of value. Thanks in advance for the non-flame responses.
i have zero learning hours of python and yet i have never had problem a reading Python code. to be real, that was only 3-4 times and the code was short the first time i saw Python was in the book Foundations of Python Network Programming. somehow i got this book in my hand and i started reading immediately. i was surprised how easy i understood the language. it was so clear that i didn't bother to write the examples in Python, but i translated them on the fly to C on the Windows platform. the only gotchas were the ones with the Win32 API next comes what's important about C# and Python, that i think is highly subjective. at the moment i get my living from writing C# code. i'm not good at it, just barely good enough for people to put up with me. i feel repulsion with languages like Java and C#. i was assigned to read data from a server and luckily from me i found code examples: https://github.com/flightaware/firehose\_examples i was looking at the C# example and looking and looking... even had it compiled and it was working, but still i couldn't grasp it. then i turned to the Python example and i immediately understood what needs to be done. what is the essence. that's what i mean when i say your question is highly subjective. there is no "the right language" and "the only right thing to do for the common good", because too much right turns into left i believe, no matter what others say (although some of those people i know for decades and value their opinion highly), based on my experience, that Python is clean and very good language for introduction into programming. regardless if it will potentially introduce bad habits on may-have-been-future professional programmers. you know when you ask how to do something in git and you get a 10 page explanation of the theoretical possibilities and historical background of all version control software VS an answer saying: type this 4 words and it will do? for me, the former is C# and the latter is Python cheers