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I didn't. I don't write Perl anymore either, though. When Python started gaining traction, I was so incredibly turned off by the fans of the language that I s
by naikrovek 6y ago
I didn't. I don't write Perl anymore either, though.
When Python started gaining traction, I was so incredibly turned off by the fans of the language that I swore I would never write code in it. That was 1998. If Python was 10% as good as those people were claiming, it would be humankind's greatest achievement for the next 1000 years, and it isn't.
Please note that I'm not saying anything bad about Python here, only its advocates in the late 1990s. I still have a bad taste in my mouth because of those conversations, over 20 years later.
- simonh 6y agoI can understand that, even just a few toxic personalities can poison a community, or even perception of it. To be fair though, there were a lot of Python haters flipping the table over significant white space back then as well.
- m463 6y agoI suspect it's not just you - look at Guido! :) I can't recall when I started using python, but it was probably 2010 or so, when it was more mature. That said the 2.x -> 3.x migration was anything but mature.
- bosswipe 6y agoThere was a perl vs python religious war back then that generated a lot of online vitriol. Which made some sense since they were competing for mindshare in the same space. Obviously Python won that war, but it's interesting to think how things would have worked out differentlywithout the self-destructive tragedy that was Perl 6.
- lizmat 6y agoThat tragedy meanwhile has been renamed to Raku (https://raku.org https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media) and is doing very well. Meanwhile, it appears at least some form of tragedy is continuing with the Perl 7 efforts. :-(