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> The article read more like a rant of "I PERSONALLY HATE THIS" Given the entire premise of the post is that he's written a list of things he hates about Pytho
by RobertKerans 8y ago
> The article read more like a rant of "I PERSONALLY HATE THIS"
Given the entire premise of the post is that he's written a list of things he hates about Python as an answer to his friend's question as to why he hates Python, I'm not sure why you think there's some ambiguity here.
- ChrisSD 8y agoWhich makes it perplexing that it's on the HN front page. A list of very personal and petty gripes aren't all that informative. Especially when half of them seem to show a profound lack of familiarity with Python.
- AcerbicZero 8y agoPerhaps it was upvoted because there is a prevailing sense that something in Python isn't right, and even though most people seems to disagree about what exactly isn't "right". I "hate" python for my own (much more petty) reasons, although the horrible naming conventions struck a cord with me, so I upvoted this article, with the hope that I'd be able to learn something from the discourse it creates.
- kbrackbill 8y agoI think the issue is that the article is called "Reasons Python Sucks" rather than "Things I Hate About Python". It comes off as the author saying that these things are objectively bad about python even though many of them are clearly subjective.
- stcredzero 8y agoclearly subjective Are they objectively subjective?
- folkrav 8y agoExactly this. The overwhelming majority of his arguments were purely subjective, like his points on code clarity or mandatory indentation.