why python annoys me

[Brad Bollenbach]

My contribution to YAMLIBTYD (Yet Another My Language Is Better Than Yours
Debate):

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Brad Bollenbach,
Python Hacker

"Luke" <floods at netplus.net> wrote in message
news:3ADCBECE.1BDFFCD at netplus.net...
> Python is an ugly language...
>
> Why should you have to name stuff with __*__ to get some pseudo hiding?
> Or for any reason for that matter...
>
> Why do you always have to access class data members as self.* What a
> pain in the ass, and anti-OO.  In a Java class, you don't constantly
> have to write this.feature = this.feature2 ++; if this.a > this.b etc...
> How tedious that would be, and is with Python's self.
>
> Is it procedural or OO?  Some of the std lib seems to think it is OO,
> and the other half seems to think it is procedural... I mean sometimes
> you create a new object with new, other times you just get a reference
> by calling a function.  Even Java is more object oriented than this--you
> *only* write classes, and the standard library is *only* made of
> objects.  Python gives too many ways of doing it.
>
> Furthermore, the syntax and features of the language keep changing with
> every release.  For God's sake!  I regret ever buying programming python
> and learning python... I feel like they're already out of date.
>
> There are lots of nice things about python like its built in [] and {}
> and I really like the indention, but I'm about to go back to Java, a
> language I know very well and feel comfortable in.  I'm not slamming it,
> it has lots of potential, but there are so many stupid illogical
> features in Python that just ruin the whole experience.
>