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Indeed. The real problem is python seems to attract people with no training in software development. It is a mess on top of a mess.
by keithalewis 3y ago
Indeed. The real problem is python seems to attract people with no training in software development. It is a mess on top of a mess.
- dylan604 3y agoI thought that was what people said about php
- josefx 3y agoA lot of the mockery PHP got was not because it attracted amateur developers, it was because the language itself was amateurishly implemented and because of the resulting mess when that leaked into how it behaved. Things like function names in the standard library optimized for a strlen based hash, a hand rolled parser that made it impossible to even guess in which contexts what features would work, proactive conversion of strings into numbers "0hello" == "0world", ... . There where entire communities dedicated not to mock the people working with PHP but the language itself.
- oblio 3y agoAnd Basic, Visual Basic, HTML, Javascript, the list is probably endless :-)
- tomlockwood 3y agoThat's also a feature - by design it has to be friendly to new users, and not an arcane art only accessible to the Chosen One, as much as those Chosen Ones would like to be the only programmers.