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On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 20:00:37 -0600, Randy Brukardt wrote:

> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
> news:un64o3$3krch$1@dont-email.me...
>>>
>>>> Usability always trumps performance.
>>>
>>> That's the philosophy of languages like Python, not Ada.
>>
>> Ah, this is why Python is totally unusable? (:-))
> 
> I would tend to argue that it is indeed the case that you get dubious
> results when you put usability first. ...
> http://www.rrsoftware.com/html/blog/consequences.html

Without reading that, I would never have understood “usability” to mean 
“ease of writing”. I learned from early on in my programming career that 
readability was more important than writability. So “using” a language 
doesn’t end with writing the code: you then have to test and debug it--
basically lick it into shape--then maintain it afterwards.