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Julia is built around multiple dispatch - when making a call, the method to execute is chosen based on the run-time types of all of the arguments. Once this choice has been made, J…

I was sure your link to a British comedian was going to be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Cooper

Doesn’t Python’s `import` evaluate code in the same way as Ruby’s `require`?

There is some convention in Python - for example `reverse` and `sort` are mutating, whereas `reversed` and `sorted` are not. However, I don’t know if there is a good reason why the…

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Wouldn’t reddish organic matter just be “red meat”? Or do you consider, for example, lamb to be a type of beef?

> Genuinely curious, what makes Python look more like pseudocode? The use of colons? I used to think it was significant indentation, but if you look at the pseudocode on e.g. Wikip…

> I am sure method_missing could be implemented in python using various tricks but nobody, afaik, is doing that. You could probably implement method_missing in Python using either …

IIRC Guido himself is planning on adding a `match` statement to Python.

> how would you showcase an experimental feature to the community? How do other languages do it? Python has the PEP process for discussing design on paper, but I don’t know how the…

> I’ll never understand how Python became the more widely appreciated language IMO syntax is a major factor. Python looks like pseudocode, while Ruby looks like Perl.

Did tech “barely exist” when Zuckerberg started Facebook in 2004?

> A guy who [...] wants to be known as the creator of something. I have this problem. I’m frequently distracted from doing what I want to do by ideas for things that I want to have…