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Oh My ZSH

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Pros of Oh My ZSH
Pros of Python
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    • 1.2K
      Great libraries
    • 964
      Readable code
    • 847
      Beautiful code
    • 788
      Rapid development
    • 691
      Large community
    • 438
      Open source
    • 393
      Elegant
    • 282
      Great community
    • 273
      Object oriented
    • 221
      Dynamic typing
    • 77
      Great standard library
    • 60
      Very fast
    • 55
      Functional programming
    • 51
      Easy to learn
    • 46
      Scientific computing
    • 35
      Great documentation
    • 29
      Productivity
    • 28
      Easy to read
    • 28
      Matlab alternative
    • 24
      Simple is better than complex
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      It's the way I think
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      Imperative
    • 18
      Very programmer and non-programmer friendly
    • 18
      Free
    • 17
      Powerfull language
    • 17
      Machine learning support
    • 16
      Fast and simple
    • 14
      Scripting
    • 12
      Explicit is better than implicit
    • 11
      Ease of development
    • 10
      Clear and easy and powerfull
    • 9
      Unlimited power
    • 8
      Import antigravity
    • 8
      It's lean and fun to code
    • 7
      Print "life is short, use python"
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      Python has great libraries for data processing
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      Rapid Prototyping
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      Readability counts
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      Now is better than never
    • 6
      Great for tooling
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      Flat is better than nested
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      Although practicality beats purity
    • 6
      I love snakes
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      High Documented language
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      There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious
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      Fast coding and good for competitions
    • 5
      Web scraping
    • 5
      Lists, tuples, dictionaries
    • 5
      Great for analytics
    • 4
      Easy to setup and run smooth
    • 4
      Easy to learn and use
    • 4
      Plotting
    • 4
      Beautiful is better than ugly
    • 4
      Multiple Inheritence
    • 4
      Socially engaged community
    • 4
      Complex is better than complicated
    • 4
      CG industry needs
    • 4
      Simple and easy to learn
    • 3
      It is Very easy , simple and will you be love programmi
    • 3
      Flexible and easy
    • 3
      Many types of collections
    • 3
      If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a g
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      If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad id
    • 3
      Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules
    • 3
      Pip install everything
    • 3
      List comprehensions
    • 3
      No cruft
    • 3
      Generators
    • 3
      Import this
    • 3
      Powerful language for AI
    • 2
      Can understand easily who are new to programming
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      Should START with this but not STICK with This
    • 2
      A-to-Z
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      Because of Netflix
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      Only one way to do it
    • 2
      Better outcome
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      Batteries included
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      Good for hacking
    • 2
      Securit
    • 1
      Procedural programming
    • 1
      Best friend for NLP
    • 1
      Slow
    • 1
      Automation friendly
    • 1
      Sexy af
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      Ni
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      Keep it simple
    • 0
      Powerful
    • 608
      Programme friendly
    • 538
      Quick to develop
    • 492
      Great community
    • 469
      Productivity
    • 432
      Simplicity
    • 274
      Open source
    • 235
      Meta-programming
    • 208
      Powerful
    • 157
      Blocks
    • 140
      Powerful one-liners
    • 70
      Flexible
    • 59
      Easy to learn
    • 52
      Easy to start
    • 42
      Maintainability
    • 38
      Lambdas
    • 31
      Procs
    • 21
      Fun to write
    • 19
      Diverse web frameworks
    • 14
      Reads like English
    • 10
      Makes me smarter and happier
    • 9
      Rails
    • 9
      Elegant syntax
    • 8
      Very Dynamic
    • 7
      Matz
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      Programmer happiness
    • 5
      Object Oriented
    • 4
      Elegant code
    • 4
      Friendly
    • 4
      Generally fun but makes you wanna cry sometimes
    • 4
      Fun and useful
    • 3
      There are so many ways to make it do what you want
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      Easy packaging and modules
    • 2
      Primitive types can be tampered with

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    Cons of Oh My ZSH
    Cons of Python
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      • 53
        Still divided between python 2 and python 3
      • 28
        Performance impact
      • 26
        Poor syntax for anonymous functions
      • 22
        GIL
      • 19
        Package management is a mess
      • 14
        Too imperative-oriented
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        Hard to understand
      • 12
        Dynamic typing
      • 12
        Very slow
      • 8
        Indentations matter a lot
      • 8
        Not everything is expression
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        Incredibly slow
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        Explicit self parameter in methods
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        Requires C functions for dynamic modules
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        Poor DSL capabilities
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        No anonymous functions
      • 5
        Fake object-oriented programming
      • 5
        Threading
      • 5
        The "lisp style" whitespaces
      • 5
        Official documentation is unclear.
      • 5
        Hard to obfuscate
      • 5
        Circular import
      • 4
        Lack of Syntax Sugar leads to "the pyramid of doom"
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        The benevolent-dictator-for-life quit
      • 4
        Not suitable for autocomplete
      • 2
        Meta classes
      • 1
        Training wheels (forced indentation)
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        Memory hog
      • 7
        Really slow if you're not really careful
      • 3
        Nested Blocks can make code unreadable
      • 2
        Encouraging imperative programming
      • 1
        No type safety, so it requires copious testing
      • 1
        Ambiguous Syntax, such as function parentheses

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      What is Oh My ZSH?

      A delightful, open source, community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration. It comes bundled with thousands of helpful functions, helpers, plugins, themes.

      What is Python?

      Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

      What is Ruby?

      Ruby is a language of careful balance. Its creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming.

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