Are the critiques in "All the things I hate about Python" valid?

[bartc]

On 17/02/2018 20:11, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 1:47 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Okay, I'm curious. How did C# force you to make extra HTTP requests
>> that were no longer necessary when you rewrote in Python?
> 
> It didn't *force* those requests to be made, but the code was so large
> and convoluted that I doubt its original author realized that the
> requests were being repeated.

....

> By making the code MASSIVELY simpler, Python allowed me (as the
> programmer) to see where improvements could be made. When you have
> thousands upon thousands of lines of code, it's far harder to
> recognize where one function's job overlaps another's, and harder
> still to figure out a clean way to reduce the duplication without
> breaking everything.

That's a very interesting observation.

I've frequently made the complaint about systems that I consider large 
and complex also leading to such issues, where no one individual can see 
the whole picture.

For example, in the system used for building CPython from source.

But I guess what you're describing doesn't apply in such cases. Those 
20K or 30K lines of configure scripts really /are/ necessary!

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bartc