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The amount of pure salt and hatred in this thread only proves his point, guys. I thought this was hacker news. Where's the substantive discussion on the impact
by lj3 10y ago
The amount of pure salt and hatred in this thread only proves his point, guys. I thought this was hacker news. Where's the substantive discussion on the impact of hacker news and reddit on the newest generation of programmers?
- threatofrain 10y agoZed Shaw's article isn't really about the new generation of programmers, or else I'd have more information on this new generation by the end of his article, but I really don't. I used to defend Zed Shaw, but then I realized recently that he just shoots himself in the face too often. The very public criticism he cannot stomach is often <self-inflicted>. Telling beginners that Python 3 maybe isn't a real programming language because it's not Turing complete is dishonest. Zed Shaw used Turing completeness as a launching point for talking about how the Python core devs are incompetent, and how a specific person shouldn't be trusted to understand threads and processes. The difference between 2 and 3 is <not> such that while Python 2 is the darling of introductory languages, Python 3 is unusable and not a real programming language. Zed Shaw has accrued reputational currency, the kind that can corral change, but he continually wastes it, and the blowback is mostly self-inflicted.