What does all this have to do with Fortran, terminals, or weaving your own core memory?
Python's competitors are Lisp, OCaml, Swift, C# etc.
I prefer at least Lisp and OCaml.
Python's competitors are Lisp, OCaml, Swift, C# etc.
I prefer at least Lisp and OCaml.
Nobody's going to bother out OCaml or Lisp for web development, data science, or OS scripting where Python is most often used.
Not even MIT teaches lisp anymore.
That's their loss.
Lots of universities teach Scheme, particularly Racket. Although Python is more popular, even in that domain.