Why did Quora choose Python for its development?

[Thorsten Kampe]

* Chris Angelico (Wed, 25 May 2011 08:01:38 +1000)
> 
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:39 AM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy at druid.net> wrote:
> > One of my favorite quotes (not sure if it was about Perl or APL) is 
"I
> > refuse to use a programming language where the proponents of it stick
> > snippets under each other's nose and say 'I bet you can't guess what
> > this does.'"
> 
> Yes, I believe that was Perl. And an amusing quote. But most of the
> point of it comes from the fact that Perl uses punctuation for most of
> its keywords, whereas (say) Python uses English words; it's a lot more
> fun to crunch something down when you can use $| and friends than when
> you have to put "x and y", complete with spaces, for a simple boolean.
> But that says nothing about which language is actually better for
> working with... [...]

It does say something about readibility. And yes, "readability counts". 
And yes, readability says a lot about how good a language is for reading 
and working with.

Thorsten