Al Sweigart on Nostr: I don't like to be negative about programming language stuff, but if your Python idea ...
I don't like to be negative about programming language stuff, but if your Python idea is, "there's already a way to do this, but here's an idea for new syntax to do it with less typing" then not only is it not a good idea, it's a bad idea.
That's how Python becomes Perl.
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