> where you could just call "graph" and the computer would display a graph.
Hang on! In what world can you just call "graph" in Python and it would display a graph?
In matplotlib on MacOS at least you try that and you get some bizarre shit about how Python isn't a framework, and you google it and find you have to do some obscure import and the import has to be in a particular order relative to other imports (totally unpythonic). https://stackoverflow.com/a/34583958/583763
Jupyter notebook... don't get me started! You do one thing and it starts a "server", and then you use that to start a "kernel" (and if my CS is dodgy and I don't really know wth these things are then I'm not having a great time already). Then this kernel thing is running Python. But oh, what version? And is it using my virtualenv? And then you google some matplotlib imports. And finally, yes you call "graph" and an ugly matplotlib png is displayed rather small in your web browser.
Hang on! In what world can you just call "graph" in Python and it would display a graph?
In matplotlib on MacOS at least you try that and you get some bizarre shit about how Python isn't a framework, and you google it and find you have to do some obscure import and the import has to be in a particular order relative to other imports (totally unpythonic). https://stackoverflow.com/a/34583958/583763
Jupyter notebook... don't get me started! You do one thing and it starts a "server", and then you use that to start a "kernel" (and if my CS is dodgy and I don't really know wth these things are then I'm not having a great time already). Then this kernel thing is running Python. But oh, what version? And is it using my virtualenv? And then you google some matplotlib imports. And finally, yes you call "graph" and an ugly matplotlib png is displayed rather small in your web browser.
R however. There you just call "graph".