> Never said C was your first language, only that you're familiar with
> it.

But that is more like an obvious fact about everything rather than a 
counter-argument. Your e-mail, at least how I interpreted it, was a fairly 
straight forward accent on my strong bias with a flavour of making it an 
example for everyone to note.

It would supposedly hold as an argument if I was used to C more than python, 
which would indicate my strong bias. While now, I am mostly interested in 
python and it’s long term trajectory, given I suspect I will be using it in 2 
or 3 years time. If I see a pseudocode of a non-existent language and I get an 
idea how to make python nicer, I will use it. But the argument that I am 
familiar with something that others are not is not really a counter-argument 
(to anything).

Except maybe serves to emphasise a general human aversion to change, which is 
naturally less for someone who is a bit familiar. So yes, I am less averse to 
such change because of 2 factors:
1. I am familiar with expression that I am proposing
2. This is my proposal

But neither 1 nor 2 are valid counter-arguments against what I am proposing.

And yes, 

> On 17 Jul 2023, at 23:57, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 at 04:37, Dom Grigonis <dom.grigo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> This is NOT a good example, my first language was R, second - python, third 
>> matlab, etc.
>> 
>> I only became familiar with C/C++ after several years of coding experience.
>> 
>> This is why, I would dare to say that this preference of mine is not 
>> affected by prejudices.
>> 
> 
> Never said C was your first language, only that you're familiar with
> it. And that familiarity inevitably WILL affect your perception, as
> per what I said.
> 
> ChrisA
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