I often wonder why people would use anything other than Python for doing real work. Such a fantastic language! I admit I am somewhat of a fanboy but I feel like it's for a good reason. The language is so easy to read, like reading a sentence. I cannot recall who said this (I want to say Steve Jobs) but its something on the lines of "something is only perfect when there is nothing left to take away" .. The fact that Python is missing so many of the crazy symbols and reads more like natural language while still being able to do so much gives me reason to believe it's one of tue greatest scripting languages around, and certainly clowns on Scala for these examples. I really wonder why people continue to write web apps in PHP for example.
> I cannot recall who said this (I want to say Steve Jobs)
Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher. "It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove."
But don't let that stop you say "Steve Jobs" if you happen to enjoy saying it :-).
