Paul Graham: Essays 2024年11月25日
The Python Paradox
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本文探讨了Python编程语言在程序员群体中的独特地位。作者认为,选择Python进行软件开发的公司能够吸引到更优秀的程序员,因为学习Python需要真正的编程热情,而非仅仅为了谋生。这种现象被称为“Python悖论”:学习一门非主流语言,反而能吸引到更优秀的程序员。文章还指出,代码的可读性对程序员至关重要,Python简洁的语法使其更易于阅读和维护。作者认为,由真正热爱编程的人创造和使用的语言,往往能够孕育出优秀的程序员和高质量的软件。

🤔 **Python吸引优秀程序员:**学习Python需要真正的编程热情,而非仅仅为了谋生,因此选择Python的公司能够吸引到更优秀的程序员,因为他们对编程充满热爱,并希望使用更合适的工具。

👓 **代码可读性至关重要:**程序员在编程过程中花费更多时间阅读代码而非编写代码,因此代码的可读性和美观性对他们至关重要。Python简洁的语法使其更易于阅读和维护,从而提升开发效率。

💡 **优秀语言源于热爱:**Python、Ruby、Lisp等语言都诞生于真正热爱编程的人手中,并被同样热爱编程的人使用,这使得这些语言更注重编程本质,并能培养出优秀的程序员。

🚀 **“Python悖论”:**选择相对小众的编程语言,反而能吸引到更优秀的程序员,因为这表明公司注重技术和人才,吸引了真正热爱编程的人。

🏢 **公司选择:**像Google这样的公司也意识到Python的优势,在招聘Java程序员的同时,也希望他们具备Python经验,这体现了Python在业界的影响力。

August 2004In a recent talk I said something that upset a lot ofpeople: that you could get smarter programmers to work ona Python project than you could to work on a Java project.I didn't mean by this that Java programmers are dumb. Imeant that Python programmers are smart. It's a lot ofwork to learn a new programming language. And people don'tlearn Python because it will get them a job; they learn itbecause they genuinely like to program and aren't satisfied with the languages theyalready know.Which makes them exactly the kind of programmerscompanies should want to hire. Hence what, for lack of a bettername, I'll call the Python paradox: if a company chooses to writeits software in a comparatively esoteric language, they'll be able to hire better programmers, because they'll attract only thosewho cared enough to learn it. And for programmers the paradox is even more pronounced: the languageto learn, if you want to get a good job, is a language thatpeople don't learn merely to get a job.Only a few companies have been smart enough to realize this so far. But there is a kind of selection going on here too: they're exactly the companies programmers wouldmost like to work for. Google, for example. When they advertise Java programming jobs, they also want Python experience.A friend of mine who knows nearly all the widely used languagesuses Python for most of his projects. He says the main reasonis that he likes the way source code looks. That may seema frivolous reason to choose one language over another.But it is not so frivolous as it sounds: when you program,you spend more time reading code than writing it.You push blobs of source code around the way a sculptor doesblobs of clay. So a language that makes source code ugly ismaddening to an exacting programmer, as clay full of lumpswould be to a sculptor.At the mention of ugly source code, people will of course thinkof Perl. But the superficial ugliness of Perl is not the sortI mean. Real ugliness is not harsh-lookingsyntax, but having to build programs out of the wrongconcepts. Perl may look like a cartoon character swearing,but there are cases where it surpasses Python conceptually.So far, anyway. Both languages are of course moving targets. But theyshare, along with Ruby (and Icon, and Joy, and J, and Lisp,and Smalltalk) the fact thatthey're created by, and used by, people who really care aboutprogramming. And those tend to be the ones who do it well.

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