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

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Tue Feb 20 09:04:03 EST 2018


On 20 February 2018 at 13:53, Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon at vub.be> wrote:

> You can't put such constraints on names in Python.

I know. That's what *I* said some time ago.

>> Sigh. Languages are different. That's my point.
>
> So, if languages are different, why the difficulty in accepting one can
> do something the other can't?

I don't know. Who finds it difficult? I don't. What I find difficult
is understanding what you're saying other languages can do that I
haven't already agreed with.

>>  What's yours? If it's
>> that Python is worse than (some other language) then so what? Probably
>> true in some cases, but what makes you think you'll get enthusiastic
>> approval for such a statement in a Python group?
>
> So you only want to see praisal for python? One can't express how one
> prefers specific features from other languages?

Of course you can. Go right ahead.

Paul



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