Abandoning Python

[Bill Allen]

You have ideas, a text editor, and a computer - best get to coding.   What's
stopping you?  You largely want Python, with modifications.   Join the
development team and help implement those changes, or fork your own flavor
and do what you wish.   Right?  You imagine it's an easy task, so get after
it.   Also, quit saying "give me".   I realize that was a troll post, but I
hear people say so many things like this about lots of things.   Sick of
it.  Shut up and do something constructive instead.   Contribute with
effort, rather than a lot of "wishlist" and "give me" talk.




On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 10:49, John J Lee <jjl at pobox.com> wrote:

> </troll>
>
> I still like Python after using it for over a decade, but there are
> things I don't like.
>
> What are your favourite up-and-coming languages of the moment?
>
> Here's my wishlist (not really in any order):
>
>  * A widely used standard for (optional) interface declaration -- or
>   something better.  I want it to be easier to know what interface an
>   object has when reading code, and which objects provide that
>   interface.
>  * Lower memory usage and faster execution speed.  Yes, this has been a
>   price worth paying.  But I do want jam on it, please: give me a
>   language where I get most of Python's advantages but don't have to
>   pay it.
>  * Better support for writing correct programs in the form of better
>   support for things like non-imperative programming, DBC, etc. (with
>   the emphasis on "etc").
>  * Perhaps better built-in support for common tasks in common application
>   domains.  Concurrency, persistence, database queries come to mind.
>  * Better refactoring tools, better code analysis tools (lint, search,
>   etc.).
>  * An even larger user base, contributing more and better free and
>   commercial software.
>
> I'm prepared to compromise on the last one.  Obviously, it should do all
> that while preserving all the nice features of Python -- surely an easy
> task.
>
>
> John
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