Promoting Python

[Ned Batchelder]

On Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 10:25:13 AM UTC-4, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 06/04/2016 14:54, BartC wrote:
> > On 06/04/2016 12:46, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> >> BartC <bc at freeuk.com>:
> >
> >>> It'll cope with ordinary coding as well, although such programs seem
> >>> to be frowned upon here; they are not 'Pythonic'.
> >>
> >> I wonder what is left of Python after your list of exclusions.
> >
> > There are plenty of features that /I/ consider must-have, which Python
> > doesn't have. It has to emulate them, unsatisfactorily, with variables
> > or classes or functions, or do without.
> 
> Please list all these features.  Precisely what is unsatisfactory about 
> the emulation?  Please state why you're still here if Python is such a 
> poorly designed language that it doesn't fit your needs.  Or is it 
> simply that your mindset cannot get to grips with something that is 
> different to that you've previously used?

No, please, let's not ask BartC to list these features.  We've already
well established Bart's point of view, let's not revisit this debate.
He prefers very different languages than Python.  We get it.  We don't
have to try to convince him to like Python, it's been tried, it doesn't
work.

--Ned.