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

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 12:18 PM, Rick Johnson
<rantingrickjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at 5:45:36 PM UTC-6, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 12:42:23 -0800, Rick Johnson wrote:
>>
>> > For instance, if the age is queried many times a second,
>> > it would be a much wiser design to set-up an event that
>> > will advance the age at the end of the last second of
>> > every year
>>
>> Do you really mean to say that everybody in the world has
>> their birthday on January 1st? We're not racehorses you
>> know.
>
>
> No, silly rabbit. I was thinking about the problem from a
> _relative_ perspective, whereas you were thinking about the
> problem from a _global_ perspective. Neither perspective is
> wrong.
>
> If you read my exact words again:
>
>     "a much wiser design to set-up an event that will advance
>     the age at the end of the last second of every year"
>
> ...you'll notice that i mentioned no specific date.
>
> Therefore, "the last day of the year" (in relativistic
> terms) is 11:59:59PM on the calendar day which _precedes_
> the day of the month for which you were born.
>
> So, for instance: if your birthday is January 25th 1969, the
> last second of the last day of your _first_ year is January
> 24th 1970 @ 11:59:59PM. And the last second of the last day
> of your _second_ year is January 24th 1971 @ 11:59:59PM. And
> so forth...
>
> Does this make sense?

Yes! It does. All you have to do is run a batch job in exactly the
very last second of *every single day*. Totally not a problem!

Have you ever run a database in your life?

Tip: When you're in a hole, stop digging.

ChrisA