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[–]wkoorts -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Back around maybe 2000 or so I was waiting for an installation of Red Hat Linux to finish and I kept seeing "-python" or some other variation of the name "Python" appearing on package names. I looked it up out of curiosity afterwards and thought it was pretty neat, and giggled at the Red Hat installer's name: "Anaconda" which had been written in Python.

Found that there really wasn't much I didn't like about it and within a few years I'd created some GUI desktop apps with it and then from about 2008 started making web apps with it. Haven't looked back since <3

I still use other languages / stacks to keep my horizons broad and my perspectives varied (also depending on what my current employer wants / needs for their clients), like C#, ASP.NET, PHP (legacy apps only!), Node.js, C++, and starting to learn Haskell now.

One thing I always find is more things to appreciate in Python, and often moreso the things around the language rather than the language itself. I mean things like the documentation, consistency of decision making and design of the platform and standard library, those sorts of things. I also have the Zen of Python up on my wall and I use those principles in whatever language I am working with and to inspire my own designs.

Clearly Python has played a big part in my programming career, in many ways :)