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So, a Python fanboy. Well, I remember when I learned Python 5 years ago, I did all of these. Before that I did them all with C# 14 years ago, and before that I

So, a Python fanboy. Well, I remember when I learned Python 5 years ago, I did all of these. Before that I did them all with C# 14 years ago, and before that I did the same with Java, VB, PHP, C/C++, ASP, HTML etc etc(you insert any fad in past 20 years, I've done it) all the way back to 90's when I started with Pascal and Assembler. The general answer to all of them is "you grind and RTFM". I too am awaiting the time when all I need to be expert in a new technology is to just go buy the plugin I'll insert into my brain (hopefully we'll become cyborgs, that's my optimism) but until then is grind & RTFM.

uryga 6y ago
> So, a Python fanboy. the post literally starts with: > Python [...] is okay but has lots of frustrations. doesn't sound fanboyish...
- unnouinceput 6y ago
  Ah sweet summer child, but that's exactly that. You see I prefer Delphi/Pascal to anything but if I would do a blog like OP, I'd lament all day how this is stupid and that is awful in Delphi. And yet at the end of the day if a client doesn't care in what programming language I'll solve his problem I'll choose Delphi
battery_cowboy 6y ago
>grind & RTFM Nothing is more true, as I start to relearn C after 20 years, that there is no substitute for the above. Literally, there is no good C tutorial or way to learn other than just writing some goddamn code and trying to make it compile.
- moron4hire 6y ago
  And then release your code and watch the people roll into the comments to tell you how you are doing everything wrong. Where were those people when I was trying to learn? Why haven't they written some God damn documentation? I know C lets you do whatever you want. I don't want to do whatever. I want to write software that is easy to maintain and doesn't fall over in a light breeze.
  - battery_cowboy 6y ago
    Exactly! I've started writing just for myself and I'm not going to even listen to people or maybe even never show my work.
- tempodox 6y ago
  There is some helpful literature, though. You might possibly appreciate “Modern C”: http://modernc.gforge.inria.fr/ http://modernc.gforge.inria.fr/
  - battery_cowboy 6y ago
    I'll check it out, thank you.
  - battery_cowboy 6y ago
    It's just what I needed, thanks again.

uryga 6y ago

> So, a Python fanboy. the post literally starts with: > Python [...] is okay but has lots of frustrations. doesn't sound fanboyish...

unnouinceput 6y ago
Ah sweet summer child, but that's exactly that. You see I prefer Delphi/Pascal to anything but if I would do a blog like OP, I'd lament all day how this is stupid and that is awful in Delphi. And yet at the end of the day if a client doesn't care in what programming language I'll solve his problem I'll choose Delphi

battery_cowboy 6y ago

>grind & RTFM Nothing is more true, as I start to relearn C after 20 years, that there is no substitute for the above. Literally, there is no good C tutorial or way to learn other than just writing some goddamn code and trying to make it compile.

moron4hire 6y ago
And then release your code and watch the people roll into the comments to tell you how you are doing everything wrong. Where were those people when I was trying to learn? Why haven't they written some God damn documentation? I know C lets you do whatever you want. I don't want to do whatever. I want to write software that is easy to maintain and doesn't fall over in a light breeze.
- battery_cowboy 6y ago
  Exactly! I've started writing just for myself and I'm not going to even listen to people or maybe even never show my work.
tempodox 6y ago
There is some helpful literature, though. You might possibly appreciate “Modern C”: http://modernc.gforge.inria.fr/ http://modernc.gforge.inria.fr/
- battery_cowboy 6y ago
  I'll check it out, thank you.
- battery_cowboy 6y ago
  It's just what I needed, thanks again.