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   this from Oct 28, 2015: "Same with me and Python. I whipped
   together something quick in Python to see if I could make
   Minecraft PC do a few things using this mod:
   [2]https://github.com/kbsriram/mcpiapi and it was pretty easy. "
   I've recommended Python to people for years even though I'm not
   fluent in it yet. To me, Python is the closest replacement to
   Microsoft BASIC from the 80s: It's all purpose. It's powerful.
   While it has some wonky bits, just like BASIC did/does, it's
   mostly very easy to read and clear. It enforces good programming
   habits by design. I usually bring up Python when I wax nostalgic
   about the days that kids HAD to learn to program to get their
   computers to do ANYTHING. It benefited me and I think it
   benefits anybody. BASIC has been dead for years now, at least
   the "easy-to-use" form that I grew up with. Python is equivalent
   to me in power and ease-of-use. I just have to learn it
   completely one of these days smile emoticon [I can *think* in
   BASIC code. It got me through math classes in school. While they
   were doing formulas on the board, I was turning them in to
   algorithms in pseudo-code in my head so they made sense. == Oh,
   other languages have more wonky bits for sure. It's more like
   some philosophical differences than "wonky bits". The way python
   does variables assignments is a little different for example.
   You don't get two variables when you make a new variable equal
   to an old variable - you get two of the same variable with two
   different names. It's not wrong just a different philosophy. But
   I've heard very few complaints about Python except its
   strictness really. I highly recommend it. I never saw any wonky
   bits with old-school BASIC either but people tell me GOTO was a
   mistake which is why so many languages try to hard to remove it.
   Silly really - assembler uses goto as critical to its
   functioning. [your computer is BASICALLY a gigantic spreadsheet
   with cell pointers that rotate - they're usually on a stack] So
   mostly philosophical differences. But nothing that doesn't take
   a moment of, "Oh, ok it works this way? Ok, got it" == [or the
   contents rotate and the pointers stay still. Whatever - 6 of
   one, 1/2 a dozen of the other tongue emoticon ] =

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