Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint
Kenny Tilton
ktilton at nyc.rr.com
Sun Oct 19 18:30:48 EDT 2003
Kenny Tilton wrote:
>
>
> Joachim Durchholz wrote:
>
>> Oh, you're trolling for an inter-language flame fest...
>> well, anyway:
>>
>>> 3. no multimethods (why? Guido did not know Lisp, so he did not know
>>> about them) You now have to suffer from visitor patterns, etc. like
>>> lowly Java monkeys.
>>
>>
>>
>> Multimethods suck.
>>
>> The longer answer: Multimethods have modularity issues
>
>
> Lisp consistently errs on the side of more expressive power. The idea of
> putting on a strait jacket while coding to protect us from ourselves
> just seems batty. Similarly, a recent ex-C++ journal editor recently
> wrote that test-driven development now gives him the code QA peace of
> mind he once sought from strong static typing. An admitted former static
> typing bigot, he finished by wondering aloud, "Will we all be coding in
> Python ten years from now?"
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=4639
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