Python Worst Practices

[Tim Chase]

On 2015-02-28 10:13, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 02/28/2015 09:56 AM, MRAB wrote:
> > On 2015-02-28 16:03, Cousin Stanley wrote:
> >>
> >>> From :  Tim Chase
> >>>
> >>> A quick google-and-tally for languages
> >>> and their corresponding number of keywords:
> >>> ....
> >>
> >>    re-sorted ....
> >>
> >>       21 :  Lua
> >>       31 :  Python2.x
> >>       33 :  Python3.x
> >>       33 :  C
> >>       37 :  Pike
> >>       40 :  Perl
> >>       40 :  Ruby
> >>       50 :  Java
> >>       54 :  Pascal
> >>       67 :  PHP
> >>       77 :  C#
> >>       86 :  C++
> >>
> > Does any language have more than COBOL? That has hundreds!
> 
> I think Visual FoxPro should get at least an (dis)honorable mention
> -- I didn't count, but there are several page-fulls [1].

That list has ~2405 entries, but it's been long enough since I've
used VFP (c. 2000) that I've successfully managed to repress the
nuances of whether those are actual reserved words, or whether, like
Python built-ins, they're more suggestions rather than enforced.

-tkc