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One of my favorite aspects of working in different languages on various client projects is seeing how concepts learned in one paradigm bleed into others. My latest professional work is written in Python, but I find myself using many strategies that I've picked up from working in other languages.
This post surveys some of the influences my past experience has had on the way I write Python today. I should note that the other languages mentioned here are definitely not the original sources of these concepts; rather, they're simply where I personally first or most often encountered them.
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