Does Python really follow its philosophy of "Readability counts"?

Michele Simionato michele.simionato at gmail.com
Thu Jan 15 00:41:14 EST 2009


On Jan 12, 10:58 pm, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
> We are in an era for programming languages sort of like the Windows 95
> era was for operating systems, where everything is broken but some of
> the fixes are beginning to come into view.  So there is no language
> that currently really works the right way, but some of them including
> Python are (one hopes) moving in good directions.

To be fair, this has been true for the last 50 years. If a language
that works the right way really existed, CS would be dead and there
would be no progress to make. Happily I think we will never end in
that situation ;)



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