Comment by YuechenLi
16 hours ago
At this point, Python is less of a programming language by itself but more of an interop protocol between various C/C++/Fortran/Rust binaries. But again, it's just part of the cycle, Python was a breath of fresh air 10 years ago when academia is still dominated by Matlab, but now it is mostly a mess of a language that's good for throwaway scripts but not very convenient for large software projects compared to statically typed languages.
thank you for putting this this way. it helped me crack a big unrelated problem
Out of curiosity, may I ask what the big unrelated problem is?
still trying to figure out a way to explain it, but i thought i needed a programming language, and it turns out what i need is an interop protocol. i want to be able to "translate" English text to a more or less dense rendering (or a completely different tone/pedagogical approach) without adding or losing meaning.
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