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[meanfreepath]

Despite all that people say about Python being an easy language to work with, I'm really FORTRAN to be much easier to work with. I'm modifying legacy F77 code, and while it's picky in terms of formatting, to me FORTRAN code is much more straightforward to follow. Clearly I haven't internalized the object-oriented programming paradigm...

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[blaketh.livejournal.com]

Some things are certainly more straightforward in Fortran, but many things you might want to do aren't. Part of Python's philosophy is that "Simple is better than complex, but complex is better than complicated."

I wrote some Python today and it healed my soul. C++ tears at one's humanity...

[greebsnarf.livejournal.com]

Python is better than C++, but C++ is better than everything else.

ah

[olifhar.livejournal.com]

Don't know if I really agree. My preferences are:

Object Oriented: Ruby (yes I like it much better than Python)

Breakneck Speed: C, and sometimes C++

Pure Badass: Erlang

Bit of a tangent-- I recently heard someone claim that compiled Lisp runs faster than equivalent C code...