Healthy, noisy, productive Python
Asked about my feelings about Python, “speckle noise” came to mind. The bigger subject here is Python's limited types and inherent noisiness in capturing deeper invariant properties (and therefore my speckle remark). Speckle noise , is the noise that arises due to the effect of environmental conditions on the imaging sensor during image acquisition. The analogy is that there is inherent noise in how one captures ideas in Python, and that this noise has "good Pythonic character". By noise, I mean something that cannot be precisely mastered. Note that "real" speckle noise is not "good" or "bad", it just is. All programming languages are "noisy". Yet to the developer, the way that noise affect you varies greatly. "Messiness" of computer languages may hurt you, as it may also help you (e.g. by improving your team's productivity). Said differently, sometime "cleanliness" is unproductive. The main idea is t...