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

[Antoon Pardon]

On 17-02-18 21:11, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 1:47 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 9:32 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> You'd be surprised how rarely that kind of performance even matters.
>>> The author of that article cites C# as a superior language, but in the
>>> rewrite from C# to Python (the same one I mentioned in the other
>>> post), I sped the program up incredibly. Part of that is because C#
>>> requires the startup of its framework (in my case that's Mono) just as
>>> Python does, and partly it's because the simplicity of Python let me
>>> eliminate a number of unnecessary HTTP requests. Trust me, your choice
>>> of language doesn't help you if it means you do three (sequential)
>>> HTTP requests when one would have done. Clean code has its own
>>> advantages.
>> 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. Pseudo-coded:

But was that a reflection on C# or on the original author?

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Antoon Pardon