Out of Box Experience not a Scientific Dissertation
The first paragraphs of the story makes it clear that the whole story is a recount of personal experience in re-learning Python as a beginner. That is the whole point of the story, a beginner perspective.
Your criticism in this context makes absolutely no sense. Nowhere am I claiming I am writing a detailed comprehensive analysis of two programming languages.
The story is a reflection of many of the problems Python currently has today. It is an old programming language which has developed organically over very many years. Functionality has been bolted on over the years and there are many competing ways of doing things. There are many ways e.g. of interpolating a text string, many different kinds of REPL environments as well as many different kinds of package systems.
This will naturally affects Python beginners. A story from a Python expert with accumulation of years of best practices and knowledge of best tools, will not give an accurate account of what a beginners journey looks like.
Nor will any beginner account do that alone. People have different backgrounds. A C++ developer will have a different experience from say a Matlab user.
I always appreciate feedback, but it is hard to respond to yours because there is zero constructive criticism. That is my advice to anyone who reads something you don’t like. Explain what you don’t like. Otherwise you cannot expect writing to improve either.
May of the commentors to this story for instance offered helpful advice. E.g. explaining how things I did could be done different, or pointed out misconceptions I had about Python, such as that assignment is a statement rather than an expression and thus would not show a value in the REPL.
This are useful comments for both the author and people who read the story. Yours is not adding anything. So if I could recommand anything it is that you edit your response to point out things that could have been written better. But please look at other responses. No need to point out what has been remarked on before.
Thank you.
