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   by pwang 17y ago

   Ian B., aren't you occasionally one of those crochety naysayers? :)
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   by pwang 17y ago

   FWIW, there are lots of Python folks moving to git and hg as well. But I don't understand what VCS choice has to do with language culture. What's next, a critique of editor choice? :) Python is such a large tent that it's quite inaccurate
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   by pwang 17y ago

   Speaking as a commercial Python developer, I can honestly say that there is a tremendous amount of interest in and usage of Python across a wide spectrum of commercial and enterprise applications. This is everything from realtime high-freq
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   by pwang 17y ago

   Actually, for a while I was spending quite a bit of time in #python. I didn't come across "arrogant children". Looking at some of the drama and prima donna action in the Rails community (from a distance) just made me sad and grateful that
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   by pwang 17y ago

   Under what circumstances have you had to write a "metric buttload of boilerplate"? I've not encountered this with Python in my experience.
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   by pwang 17y ago

   Ditto. The syntax seems cluttered more cluttered with sigils (some optional), and much of it seems merely to support things that Python does much more readably. I occasionally tangle with a friend who is a Ruby fan, and who tried Python ba
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   by pwang 17y ago

   This is an acknowledge minor "wart". In Python 3.0, range() does the same thing as xrange().