Python is DOOMED! Again!

[Mark Lawrence]

On 22/01/2015 04:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Occasionally you find people spreading Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt about
> Python. Python is now over 20 years old and one of the most popular
> languages in the world no matter how you measure popularity:
>
> http://import-that.dreamwidth.org/1388.html
>
> so you don't often get FUD these days. When you do, it's usually about
> whitespace, or "Python is too slow", or occasionally "Python 3 is killing
> Python", but the latest FUD is about PEP 484 and type-hinting:
>
> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/
>
> Here's a typical example:
>
>      Python is already headed towards obscurity. ... it seems that
>      GvR intends to drive the final nail in python's coffin with
>      this "type hinting" crap that will convert Python syntax from
>      a readable pseudo code into a cryptic nightmare.
>
>      Type hinting violates the very ESSENCE of what Python was
>      meant to be, that is: a "clean and intuitive syntax".
>
>
> (Google for it if you care for the source.)
>

So it's doomed again, big deal, it's the third time this week and the 
dustmen simply won't take it.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence