Comment by pjmlp

I know Python since version 1.6.

It is great for learning on how to program (BASIC replacement), OS scripting tasks as Perl replacement, and embedded scripting in GUI applications.

Additionally understand PYTHONPATH, and don't mess with anything else.

All the other stuff that is supposed to fix Python issues, I never bothered with them.

Thankfully, other languages are starting to also have bindings to the same C and C++ compute libraries.