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My biggest problem with Python is not that it's a bad language but that it isn't a great language. Why is this an issue? Simple: it's one of the most highly rat

by tikhonj 14y ago

My biggest problem with Python is not that it's a bad language but that it isn't a great language. Why is this an issue? Simple: it's one of the most highly rated--and, frankly, overrated languages today. And, try as I may, I can never seem to get away from it: at least in my circles, it's even more endemic than Java! I really wish people liked OCaml or Haskell that much instead.

snogglethorpe 14y ago
Yeah. Python has an awful lot of warts, considering the way so many people fawn over it. Really the main strength of Python is not the language at all, but the huge number of libraries written for it, and the wealth of tools and "community." Fair enough, it was in the right place, at the right time, but if history is going to throw its weight behind something, it is a little annoying when that thing is rather mediocre...