PEP0238 lament

[Guido van Rossum]

Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> writes:

> > By the way, 1/2 is also
> > 0.5 in standard JavaScript:
> 
> I wouldn't think how JavaScript does things would be a valid defense in
> any case.

This attitude is hurtful to your position.  Just because JavaScript
has a bad rep doesn't mean its designers were morons.  Of course,
pointing to JavaScript without motivation doesn't help.  But trying to
understand why JavaScript (a language that is in many ways very
similar to Python, with a more conventional C-like syntax) does things
a particular way may shed light on the issue in a more general
context.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)