I don't like Python. Does that make me a bad person?

I've done some Django programming in the past. A view gets a request object (pardon me if I'm wrong or if this has changed recently) and is supposed to then render the response (or something similar, I don't remember exactly). Now what is a request? If Django were in C, I would know what a request object really was, grep for it, and look up the header file. If request has a GHashTable named post_data, I don't think I need two guesses about what it exactly is. Same goes for C++ and C#.

Then you've inconsistencies. The same method may return a string object or an integer on different calls. And this happens in practice - I remember when I was (trying to) model a relational database in Django, I found a ManyToMany field returning (when invoking values ()) a list of dictionaries instead of a list of Model objects (which I was expecting).

Of course, if I was not dumb enough to not read the documentation I might not have stumbled; but the point is that Python allows this to happen. And since I don't have the benefits of a compiler, anything other than basic syntax errors (the ones I can catch by calling py.compile) explode at runtime.

The thing I've begun to notice that scripting languages tend to require you to hold the entire structure of the program in your head as you code. In C++ you know that unless you've gone out of your way to do some casting magic, a string get_foo () will always return a string. And you can always do get_foo ().c_str (). In python you're never sure.

http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pyguide.ht...

In fact at Google the maximum line length for python code is 80 characters because long lines make the code unreadable, and following the style guide basically anything can fit in a nice and readable way.

A language that needs you, the client programmer, to define getFoo () and setFoo () methods manually can't be right.

Try the other two scripting languages - Ruby and Perl. I would prefer Ruby. See if you like the way things are done there.

If you find that you are more at home with this language than Python, try analyzing what makes you prefer it over Python.

I would suggest you to start with the basics of the Ruby language, and then try building a simple web app with Sinatra. I find the Ruby style much more comfortable than Python.

But if you don't like any of these languages, its still well and good. If you get can shit done with C#, thats all it counts.