Suffering For Your Art

mkx at excite.com mkx at excite.com
Sun Feb 25 04:10:01 EST 2001


I only suffer when my coworkers make me work with their VBScript code,
because they don't know Python, and they have a TON of VB stuff built
over the past years.

The only thing worse (for me - no flame baiting of offense intended),
is when we find left over Perl code that the previous guy wrote. Then
we are pained _and_ confused.


On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 23:01:37 +1100, "Ben" <bencr at bigpond.com> wrote:

># Just A Quick Observation
>
>Is it just me or is there a lot of animosity towards Python as a serious
>programming language ... it seems to be an old school attitude that  if you
>do not have to struggle and suffer with an idiosyncratic, unintuitive
>programming syntax then it cannot possibly be a powerful language. All these
>ascetics who would like to see everyone go back to the 'halcyon days' of
>assembly ... IMHO I think Python is a marvellously eloquant and beautiful
>language because it does not get in the road of programming. It pisses me
>off if I have to consult a tome of a help file/manual to find some obscure
>reference to do something that should have been quite simple ...
>
># Would Anyone Like To Comment?
>





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