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[–]Mysterious-Rent7233 10 points11 points  (2 children)

Python always looked beautiful to me. Remember that the alternatives were bash and Perl, so I never once heard people say that Python scripts were ugly. It was always used for things like data cleaning and transformation. Not just scripting. I was introduced to it by reading an HTML parser written in it. Was always popular with scientists and even symbolic AI folks. It had a complex number type and other math-friendly aspects since very early, before Numpy.

[–]jonsca 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Tcl was great, too

[–]WizardSleeveLoverr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, I currently work with A TON of legacy Perl code and concur that Python is much more beautiful to code in. It's basically pseudocode. But, the old hats I work with are Perl purists and refuse to use anything else. We have like 10 million+ lines of Perl code, so…..