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

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 12:31 PM, bartc <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:
> On 18/02/2018 00:45, Chris Angelico wrote:
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>> On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 11:13 AM, bartc <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:
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>> It's text, but it is an intermediate or "object" file. It's not doing
>> pointless stuff; it's coping with the myriad platforms and variants
>> that Python has support for.
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> It could well do all that. But it surely cannot need 18,000 lines' worth to
> do it; that much should be obvious to anyone. And in fact, for building with
> MS's Visual Studio, it doesn't use that file at all, but something smaller.
> (Although the MS build adds its own complexities.)

You're arguing against a strawman, and you know it. Either that, or
you have a fundamental misunderstanding of "intermediate files", in
which case I recommend you spend some time with a web search engine.

I'm done.

ChrisA