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Well I actually feel betrayed... Python 1.4 was an awesomely simple programming environment and I pretty much immediately fell in love with it. Then features w

Well I actually feel betrayed... Python 1.4 was an awesomely simple programming environment and I pretty much immediately fell in love with it. Then features were added. Now it is a whole home improvement store full of kitchen sinks. I think that programming is a sort of theological process. Popular languages attract ideas. Unfortunately, in the case of Python, those ideas were not effectively filtered and now we have an expression of as many ideas as can possibly fit. The ultimate design by committee... I suspect that the recent excitement about assignment expressions is really a kind of straw that broke the camels back. The problem isn't just this one feature, it's the sum of them.

Ensorceled 7y ago
I write a lot of toy/hobby one-off scripts in Python and have since 1.5; what has significantly changed that prevents that type of usage for you?
SantalBlush 7y ago
>I think that programming is a sort of theological process. Popular languages attract ideas. Unfortunately, in the case of Python, those ideas were not effectively filtered and now we have an expression of as many ideas as can possibly fit. The ultimate design by committee... It's funny, a lot of people hate on Elm for the exact opposite reasons: one person dictating the language's direction and removing features. I suppose a nice balance could be struck between the two ends of the spectrum.
coldtea 7y ago
>Python 1.4 was an awesomely simple programming environment and I pretty much immediately fell in love with it. Then features were added. Now it is a whole home improvement store full of kitchen sinks. I've used Python at the time (and up to now). It was a revelation compared to Perl, but it sucked compared to modern Python. What exact features you have a problem with?