It's cheesy but one of the things that "kept me" around Python back when I started was the Python "zen philosophy" python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/
You can also get it from the REPL:
>>>importthisTheZenofPython,byTimPetersBeautifulisbetterthanugly.Explicitisbetterthanimplicit.Simpleisbetterthancomplex.Complexisbetterthancomplicated.Flatisbetterthannested.Sparseisbetterthandense.Readabilitycounts.Specialcasesaren't special enough to break the rules.Although practicality beats purity.Errors should never pass silently.Unless explicitly silenced.In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you'reDutch.Nowisbetterthannever.Althoughneverisoftenbetterthan*right*now.Iftheimplementationishardtoexplain,it's a bad idea.If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let'sdomoreofthose!
While Python isn't my cup of tea personally, I love the ethos behind its design! Definitely a lot of stuff there other languages could take on board.
Seeing the PEP link reminds me - I also really like when languages have a well-defined process for proposing changes, rather than just 'submit a PR and hope for the best'. A lot of languages (and some libraries too, like React) are moving in that direction, and I think Python was ahead of the curve in that regard.
Yeah, the PEP process has been contested a lot of times in the past but I think PEPs, plus ethos and its community (and obviously the creator) is what kept Python relevant and kept it from exploding throughout all these years.
Python is 27 years old and it had two main versions that changed the language: Python 2 which is 18 years old and Python 3 which is 10 years old.
Ten years later people are still complaining about the fact that Python 3 is not compatible with Python 2. It's kind of hilarious but it makes you understand how hardcore the core team is :-)
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It's cheesy but one of the things that "kept me" around Python back when I started was the Python "zen philosophy" python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/
You can also get it from the REPL:
While Python isn't my cup of tea personally, I love the ethos behind its design! Definitely a lot of stuff there other languages could take on board.
Seeing the PEP link reminds me - I also really like when languages have a well-defined process for proposing changes, rather than just 'submit a PR and hope for the best'. A lot of languages (and some libraries too, like React) are moving in that direction, and I think Python was ahead of the curve in that regard.
Yeah, the PEP process has been contested a lot of times in the past but I think PEPs, plus ethos and its community (and obviously the creator) is what kept Python relevant and kept it from exploding throughout all these years.
Python is 27 years old and it had two main versions that changed the language: Python 2 which is 18 years old and Python 3 which is 10 years old.
Ten years later people are still complaining about the fact that Python 3 is not compatible with Python 2. It's kind of hilarious but it makes you understand how hardcore the core team is :-)