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In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar…

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Don't you hate code that's not properly indented? Making it [indenting] part of the syntax guarantees that all code is properly indented.
I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software…
It's easy to make mistakes that only come out much later, after you've already implemented a lot of code. You'll realize Oh…
Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's…
Modern programs must handle Unicode â€”Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better.
If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one…
If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet…

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