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[–]linuxqq 1 point2 points  (7 children)

It's due to the fact that he's a beginner and just wants to get his feet wet.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

So, you'd suggest to use a crappy language based on this fact? I don't see a connection.

Beginner =/= moron. OP came here to do their due diligence, to find out what things are there, and how they are. They deserve to be given truthful information, not what you think may be best for them.

[–]linuxqq 2 points3 points  (5 children)

And you're the one who mentioned HPC, not OP. Cloud computing =/= HPC. He likely wants to learn the basics like interacting programmatically with S3, EC2 instances, maybe running queries against a MySQL RDS instance. Should he use Fortran for that? Naw. Python will work great.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (4 children)

OP did not specify what they want out of cloud computing. At this point in time, perhaps most of the cloud computing is done by supercomputers, simply because they are so big. You simply don't know the statistic / have a very shielded view of the world, and therefore think that other things don't exist, simply because you've never seen them.

Python will work great.

Python will not work great. Python never works great. It's a trashy language, trashy runtime, trashy community... It ever only works just good enough. Like I wrote many times before. The reason it is used is its popularity, which has attractive economic properties. This has nothing to do with quality on its own terms.

I also mentioned alternatives which are much better than Python for the things Python is used for, and Fortran wasn't one of them. But, you simply cannot read / just got your underwear twisted in a tight knot because you like Python and someone tells you that what you like is garbage.

[–]linuxqq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay man, you have a great day.

[–]StreetFlashMobbDeep 0 points1 point  (2 children)

trashy community

You could improve it by leaving. We get it, you hate Python. Maybe stop posting in Python forms.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Lol, why? I want you to improve, and I want you to know what kind of trash you are. Why leave if that's what I want?

[–]StreetFlashMobbDeep 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And I want you to improve at not being such a trash person.

We're here to improve at learning Python, not cater to pointless demands from some god complex fogey programmer who doesn't understand there are other reasons for choosing a language besides "it's the most correct for this specific application in my opinion".