why isn't python more popular?

Shae Erisson shapr at uab.edu
Mon Aug 14 09:48:58 EDT 2000


Thomas Wouters wrote:

[just a touch of the horror left in  for flavor]

> The big money, the whirlpool and the double-oh-seven are used in identifier
> names to signal the metatype, but are also used to dereference-and-typify
> references.

> The-Perl-manual-should've-been-written-in-INTERCAL-lingo-to-warn-
>         -off-the-insuitable-ly y'rs,

After this terrifying description... I'm surprised anyone uses it...
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