There are for sure concepts that are harmful to the sanity of own thoughts. If I mean 1 to 10 , I mean [1, 2, … , 9, 10] and not [1, 2, … 8, 9]. It is also sure that it is possible to adapt to any pattern keeping clear and sane mind, but some of such patterns are result of author’s confusion, so if you give-in to accept and assimilate them, you assimilate a bit of the confusion along with it. After 30 years of Python I am still forgetting the colon after function or loop definition and feel restricted in design of code text pattern by being forced to use appropriate indentation. Python, which aligned with my mental model much better than anything else 30 years ago does it no more - hence my search for an alternative. I was into Emacs … so learned to write eLisp code … but dropped it because of stubborn stackexchange community and the mess of Emacs core code base. Ruby and Lua are from my current perspective a better choice than Python considering the syntax. Python has much of the batteries included … and LLMs are currently best while writing Python code and fail on other programming languages. What I need a programming language for is to be the one which aligns best with the goal of respecting custom user preferences allowing adaptation to any other way of expressing algorithms and to the own “inner language”. If you like I encourage you to check out what oOo is about … I am as oOosys on github and dev.to - this would help to better understand my motivation and what I am actually after asking questions where the goal is always increasing the level of understanding - anything else is an add-on to it.
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