Followup with same student, not from China but planning to go there: === Interesting observations, thank you.
At OST we see ourselves as a school, even though in the .com domain. Given what you say about other schools not availing of these newer / better tools: that works to our advantage, but on the other hand we don't think the world should be run by dinosaurs. Sounds like you and I have similar goals in making a good case for Python. Regarding China and Chinese, a big open question around here is to what extent will Asian coders want to revert to native scripts e.g. Devanagari, now that Unicode allows source code in any language. In Python, your English skills would still matter given the 33 keywords, builtins, and standard library are English language (by dictator decree -- he's Dutch and English is not his native language, but he recognizes its utility for a global parlance). However your class, function and variable names may freely refer to the objects of your knowledge domain and experience and there I think the impulse would be to give up on using English. That's a likely long term trend: more source code in more languages (human languages). Kirby
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