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People will tell you that instagram uses python or yelp or other big name projects use python. Certainly, type checking is not Essential to a large project the same way utensils are not essential when you eat. You can just use your hands to shove all the food into your mouth.
As an Indian, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to make of your analogy...
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As an Indian, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to make of your analogy...
Wait, was the underlying message not supposed to be "everyone should conform to my world view"?
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People will tell you that instagram uses python or yelp or other big name projects use python. Certainly, type checking is not Essential to a large project the same way utensils are not essential when you eat. You can just use your hands to shove all the food into your mouth.
As an Indian, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to make of your analogy...
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As an Indian, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to make of your analogy...
Perhaps you can infer that someone who thinks eating with their hands is uncivilized will have equally ignorant opinions about computing.
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Wait, was the underlying message not supposed to be "everyone should conform to my world view"?
That was not the underlying message. The underlying message is: I have my world view, I am offering it, you can agree, disagree or conform. The choice is yours. I would never force anyone to conform. Where in my post did I say that?
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Perhaps you can infer that someone who thinks eating with their hands is uncivilized will have equally ignorant opinions about computing.
And what you are inferring is incorrect. I never said eating with your hands is uncivilized. You inferred it in your request for someone else to infer something.
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Someone posted a link to a really nice 3rd part addin on the reddit thread, on mobile so can't find the link unfortunately but was very well done. Shame on Microsoft for half-assing Excel for the last decade.
Possibly querystorm, in case anyone is looking for it. It did look interesting last time I looked at it, but I've never tried it.
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Code written in dynamically typed language requires less code, which often means less surface area for failure, and less tests.
> often means No it does not, neither in theory nor in practice. Also, "less code" depends primarily on the language structure and not on whether the language is dynamically typed or not. (Haskell, for example, is more terse than Python.)
I've yet to come across something that was fewer loc in C++/java than in python.
That said, this is true even if I use pytype.
Aim for a front end notebook interface like Jupyter or Mathematica. Most excel i've had to play with was to store/manipulate data _and then_ C&P charts or data to word for the report. Seriously, notebooks.
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Please not matplotlib ... are we really stuck with matplotlib forever ..?
If you've got better suggestions I'm all ears. I've found it pretty great for debugging and being able to understand data in a rapid manner.