Re: GNU
Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:57:35 -0700, Lars Poulsen wrote: > On 2026-03-27 13:44, rbowman wrote: >> >> And now almost all come with Python. C still is my goto but if I'm >> going to query a REST API, parse out the JSON return, and make it >> presentable Python saves a lot of boilerplate. > > Surely, that is not due to the LANGUAGE, but due to the fact that > there are better and more intuitive LIBRARIES readily available? Why are there more and better libraries for doing that sort of thing in Python than in other languages? Remember that Perl, as the former biggest example of this, had CPAN years before Python came on the scene. So it had a big head start in being able to accumulate lots of similarly useful libraries. Yet Python not only caught up, but it surpassed Perl. Why? Because the core language of Python is more amenable to this sort of extensibility.