Likes Python.

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…Wow. That’s a really nice… Well, thank you for giving that example. That’s a beautiful example. Wow, I don’t think I know a programming language that does that. That’s really nice. Ruby’s full of that. So let me dive into a couple of examples because I really think it helps paint the picture and let me preface this by saying I actually, I like the ethos of Python. I think the Ruby and the Python community share a lot of similarities. They’re both dynamic interpreted languages. They’re both focused on immediacy and productivity and ease of use in a bunch of ways, but then they’re also very different in many other ways. One of the one ways they’re very different is aesthetically. Python to me, I hope I don’t offend people too much. I’ve said this before, it’s just it’s ugly and it’s ugly in its base because it’s full of superfluous instructions that are necessary for legacy reasons of when Guido made Python back in ’87 that are still here in 2025, and my brain can’t cope with that. Let me give you a basic example. When you make a class in Python, the Initializer method, the starting method is def, okay, fair enough. That’s actually the same as Ruby. D-E-F definition of a method. Then it is underscore not one, underscore, two, init, underscore underscore, parentheses start, self, comma, and then the first argument. Yeah, the whole self thing. Yeah.…

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