Zhou Enlai, born on this day in 1898, was a communist revolutionary, statesman, and military officer who served as the 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 1976. "All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means."
Zhou was educated in a missionary college in Tianjin before studying at a Japanese university. In Tianjin, he met his future wife, Deng Yingchao while participating in a radical political group known as the "Awakening Society". In 1920, Zhou moved to France, where he helped form the overseas branch of the Communist Party of China. He also lived in Britain and Germany before returning to China in 1924.
While working in the Political Department of the Whampoa Military Academy, Zhou was also made the secretary of the Communist Party of Guangdong-Guangxi, and served as the CPC representative with the rank of major-general.
After the Chinese Civil War broke out in 1927, Zhou served in the communist forces, helping establish and oversee a network of underground cells of communist resistance. Zhou played a leading role in the Long March of 1934-35, an arduous military retreat of communist forces over 8,000 miles.
Following the Zunyi Conference in 1935, Mao Zedong became Zhou's assistant. After the conclusion of the Long March, Mao officially took over Zhou Enlai's leading position in the CPC, while Zhou took a secondary position as vice-chairman. Both would hold their leadership positions until their deaths in 1976.
Zhou was a prominent participant in the 1955 AsianβAfrican Conference, held in Indonesia. The conference produced a declaration in strongly in favor of peace, the abolition of nuclear arms, general arms reduction, and the principle of universal representation at the United Nations. Zhou was critical of American imperial aggression and stated "the population of Asia will never forget that the first atom bomb was exploded on Asian soil."
Zhou passed away from bladder cancer on January 8th, 1976, just nine months before Mao Zedong's death in September that year.
"Today the first unification of the Chinese people has emerged. The people themselves have become the masters of Chinese soil, and the rule of the reactionaries in China has been irrevocably overthrown."
Zhou Enlai, from "Chinese People Will not Tolerate Aggression" (October 1950)
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These are definitely interesting things to think about.
I hadn't really thought that it was due to a language, but mostly the nature of what it's like to do programming vs what I wish I were doing instead. On one hand, you are making these cool projects. But on the other your still just typing at the computer fixing tedious errors and learning syntax.
I always found analyzing data to be boring, for example, even if it is data I cared about. Simulations are more fun, though. They are like making a playground were you can execute your own rules, or understand a system. It's like building and running an experiment and turning science into something that feels almost like a game.
But dear god data analysis bores me to tears. I've never liked doing it.
I've done simulations in Java, Python, and Fortran. My only fuss about Python when doing simulations was definitely the performance. Good lord lol. NumPy is great, but that's because it uses C as you said.
I don't know if a language can help, but I am definitely open to the idea. I am not ashamed to say I am an amateur coder. Though I've done it for years, I don't think of it has my main skill nor do I put much time thinking about coding or how to improve. Not any more than I have to. I don't want to. It's not what I'm interested in. Again it's just a tool for me. Maybe it's just a difference in interests, or perhaps it is because bad practices and languages over the years have made coding feel like a chore?
I used to be more into coding when I was learning it. Over the years I've just gotten burned out on it. I find no joy in it. If anything it feels like emotional friction that I avoid - except for work unfortunately.
I know what you mean about dev environments. It's definitely annoying. I've been satisfied with Anaconda. It gets the job done. It is annoying as you said.
I've only recently, within the past years, starting using type hints in Python. It's hard to tell if it has made a difference since it doesn't seem to actually enforce anything. But doing so had at least made me more conscious of variable types when designing functions and potential errors.
I think I don't know enough about programming to understand how a compiled language will feel vs an interpreted language. Does that come into play when you have a system with various classes, etc., and your IDE is able to know what the various methods, attributes, or maybe even inherited classes are? I know what you mean by how you have to have the documentation on hand because of that.
But it works for me as I already have those on hand because I actually like making documentation and UML(-ish) diagrams
Again, I like all the parts of coding except doing the actual coding lol.
I may go back to my C++ notes and try to jog my brain in how it felt, but that was about 15 years ago. Maybe I'll read about C#, but I'd want to check how much of an investment it will be. I have less programming patience than I used to unfortunately :(
But thanks for the response! I appreciate your thoughts and I'll chew on them for a bit.
no prob always happy to dish about programming. C# pretty easy to get into, just install VS2026 and it will pretty much come with everything you need to just hit F5 and debug/run
Interpreted languages always feels so floaty to me; always having to re-learn what i've written and figure out what data is where. Compiled languages keep all the info for you in the type system, so you can focus on the actual logic. Nowadays I only work in C# backend and typescript frontend, so I don't have to mess around with that too much anymore.