Was this made with AI?
None of that is “Python”. You want to learn a language and automatically know everything there is to know using Math?
Dynamic typing, special and unique syntax for every language feature, interpreter intrinsics
Operator overloads are excellent for readable code when used well - I object to their inclusion on this list.
I think the problems there are exacerbated a lot by over-eager type coercion and other crappy design decisions inherited from almost 30 years ago
Yep lua and lisp/scheme are also unityped and not even close to as broken. All are remarkably similar languages, theory-wise.
…also something something Guido not getting tail call elimination and people sending him copies of the wizard book. It’s been a while.
(And, yes, lua does proper tail calls).
The mistake was choosing a language, and afterwards searching for a use to the language you just learned.
Among all of them at least python is the choice generically people learn when they don’t want to learn programming, just want to program stuff as a helper tool to manage data. For those, python is just fine and the learning material around is tailored to for that.
That’s how you trick people into programming. You then see people making scripts that take days to run, but it’s fine, they’re only going to use it twice and are busy enough to be able to wait
A hammer is beginner friendly, but learning to use a hammer doesn’t necessarily mean you’re ready to build a house with it.
