tom:

Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of nice things to be found there and it is worth looking at, but – at least if you believe there is some truth to the Zen of Python – there are also lots of things that are really dubious fads in terms of how things are done.


That couldn’t be more wrong. The coding approach is built on far more years of research than Python has existed. The basic ideas go back to APL, developed in the late 1950’s.
For folks that are deeply immersed in just one way of doing things, this will be uncomfortable.



 tom:

Starting with the outright bizarre “Python is 1000 times too slow” claim in the first lecture 2019


This is nearly universally accepted as being true.