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Of course they do. They made an elegant, beautiful and widely used language. They are humans, they have made mistakes. But you can't seriously argue that the m
by ayrx 12y ago
Of course they do. They made an elegant, beautiful and widely used language.
They are humans, they have made mistakes. But you can't seriously argue that the majority of their decisions have been mistakes.
- wtetzner 12y agoWidely used is the only thing in your list that's not subjective, and also the only one I agree with. PHP is also widely used, but I wouldn't say the developers of PHP have made good decisions.
- latiera 12y agoelegant?? It's 2014 and Guido is talking about event loops. beautiful??? Atrocious more like. Python is terribly put together (I'd say designed but it's clear no such process has taken place). It's a language that, like PHP and to some extent Perl before it, rewards idiotic behavior, makes it extremely easy to end up with horrible unmaintainable code and requires strict discipline and a lot of experience in order for it to "work" in anything that's not exploratory/throw-away in nature. Of course the (mostly?) clueless masses love it, because they feel empowered. But really ask yourself, what has Python brought to the table in terms of paradigm shifts? It's no Lisp, Haskell or Ocaml. Hell, even Java looks to be better, especially for beginner/mediocre programmers. Bleh.