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1. “And we kept trying to do more and more abstract and higher order programming in C++, which at the time was quite difficult. With templates, the compiler support wasn't great, et cetera. So when I started playing around with Python, that was my first time encountering really first class support for types, for functions, and things like that. And it felt so incredibly expressive. So that was what kind of made me fall in love with a little bit. And also once you spend a lot of time in a C++ dev environment, the ability just to whip something together that basically runs and works the first time is amazing. So a really productive scripting language. I mean, I knew Perl, I knew Bash. I was decent at both. But Python just made everything. It made the whole world accessible, right? I could script this and that and the other network things, you know, little hard drive utilities. I could write all these things in the space of an afternoon. And that was really, really cool. That's what made me fall in love.”

   2021-12-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #250 – Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “Well, those are three different things. What I think is most beautiful, what made me fall in love with me stay in love. When I first started using it was when I was a C++ computer graphics performance nerd. In the 90s? Yeah, in late 90s. And that was my first job out of college.”

   2021-12-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #250 – Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source