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Re: Reasons Python Sucks

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Post by colanderman »

CurtHagenlocher wrote: post #3

A number of these points seem like reasonable opinions to have. But two which had me questioning the breadth of the author's experience were "Most programming languages pass function parameters by value." and "In every other language, arrays are called 'arrays'. In Python, they are called 'lists'." To the author: 1. Java, JavaScript and C# all have types which are passed by reference. (They also have types which are…

Python (and Java) do not pass anything by reference. They pass by pointer-value. (If they passed by reference, you could change to which value a caller's variable was bound, like you can in C++).

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CurtHagenlocher wrote: post #3

A number of these points seem like reasonable opinions to have. But two which had me questioning the breadth of the author's experience were "Most programming languages pass function parameters by value." and "In every other language, arrays are called 'arrays'. In Python, they are called 'lists'." To the author: 1. Java, JavaScript and C# all have types which are passed by reference. (They also have types which are…

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Post by dagw »

CurtHagenlocher wrote: post #3

A number of these points seem like reasonable opinions to have. But two which had me questioning the breadth of the author's experience were "Most programming languages pass function parameters by value." and "In every other language, arrays are called 'arrays'. In Python, they are called 'lists'." To the author: 1. Java, JavaScript and C# all have types which are passed by reference. (They also have types which are…

Python lists are not arrays

In addition python also does have arrays if you want/need them: https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/array.html

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Post by cirgue »

sidcool wrote: post #5

Interesting points. I disagree with Reason 2 though. Python has smoother installation than Java and GCC. One of the reasons Python is popular is because it's easy to do a lot of things. Some python choices don't make sense technically, but they were made to make python as easy as possible. Performance was never the first criteria of Python (or ruby). My personal peeve is with mandatory indentation. But again, that's…

I go back and forth about mandatory indentation. Part of me hates it, but I remember why I don’t mind as much every time I have to do code reviews.

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Post by superasn »

I too have tried it many times mainly because of all the great ML libs for python but each time I dreaded using it for Reason #3 (Syntax).

Using indents for blocks just seemed unintuitive and error prone to me. But I dismissed it because all the programming languages I've worked with have had curly braces so maybe the reason for my discomfort was that it was unfamiliar.

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