> At least method overriding is consistent when it is baked into a language Right there you have one of the two great families of programming. You like things

> At least method overriding is consistent when it is baked into a language Right there you have one of the two great families of programming. You like things like Python, where there is only one obvious way to do anything, and if it isn’t obvious, you just don’t do it. These ideas are from the other family, where you have a number of small but powerful ideas that you can combine in various ways. The ones that solve problems and have great timing and get some marketing oomph establish community traction, the rest fade away. This is the UNIX and Lisp tradition. I can’t tell you whether one is better than the other. I can tell you that the first thing is IBM. And opinionated frameworks. And benevolent dictators. The second thing is startups. And libraries. And tinkerers. There’s no shame in preferring one to the other. Both have produced great things.