Old Man Yells At Cloud

Tim Daneliuk info at tundraware.com
Sat Sep 16 10:59:43 EDT 2017


On 09/16/2017 12:38 AM, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
> /rant on
> 
> So apparently everyone who disagrees that Python should be more like Javascript
> is an old greybeard fuddy-duddy yelling "Get off my lawn!" to the cool kids --
> and is also too stupid to know how dumb they are.
> 
> "Hi, I've been programming in Python for what seems like days now, and here's
> all the things that you guys are doing wrong. I insist that you fix them
> immediately, it doesn't matter how much code it will break, that's not
> important. What is important is that Javascript programmers like me shouldn't
> be expected to learn anything new or different when they program with Python."
> 
> /rant off
> 
> And no, for once it wasn't Ranting Rick.
> 
> 
> 
> 

Well, the whole integer floor division thing years ago was the beginning
of the end - Python was doomed ...



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