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Reading this got me thinking and I wonder if other people feel like me about this, so I'm going to share it. This is not serious, but not entirely unserious... I try to be a good sport about it, but every time I write python I want to quit software engineering. It makes me angry how little it values my time. It does little for my soured disposition that folks then vehemently lecture me about the hours saved by future…
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It seems to value my time quite highly, as I can achieve most things more quickly and easily in Python than any other language I know. Can you be more specific about how it increases your burnout? Is it the language, or someone forcing you to use that linter and settings?
> Is it the language, or someone forcing you to use that linter and settings? It's definitely both. Preface in true internet style: these are just opinions and you may not share them. That's fine. I really don't like Python as a language. I don't like its total lack of composability. I don't like its over-reliance on a very dated vision of OO. I don't like how its list comprehensions aren't generic. I don't like how…
Like I said, it’s not the perfect language, it does not have Erlang’s pattern matching nor Lisp’s insistence on thinking about almost everything in a recursive manner, but you can at least mentally try to incorporate those two philosophies into Python once you know about them (and once you know about other similar such great programming concepts).
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I'm not really sure what your point is in criticizing "farming" to C. > This is that culture thing I'm talking about. You made a false claim. You referred to Python iteration as not generic, when what you really meant is that Python lacks first class monad support. If you want a monadic programming model, you're not going to be a happy camper in the Python world. But I doubt that comes as a surprise.
> I'm not really sure what your point is in criticizing "farming" to C. If Python is so great how come it can't even express a decent data structure that it needs? I'll happily level the same criticism at Ruby if you like. > You made a false claim. Firstly: This is not High School Debate Club. There isn't some kind of point system. Language and expectations like this are not only counterproductive (in that they essen…
I'm sure you know this is a deliberate design choice/tradeoff. It's arguably turned out to be a bit of a millstone for languages that eventually want to grow up to be general-purpose-ish, but that wasn't as obvious at the time.
Reading this got me thinking and I wonder if other people feel like me about this, so I'm going to share it. This is not serious, but not entirely unserious... I try to be a good sport about it, but every time I write python I want to quit software engineering. It makes me angry how little it values my time. It does little for my soured disposition that folks then vehemently lecture me about the hours saved by future…
I am about to hit a decade of python experience. I work with it daily, all my major codebases are written in it. I hate it. It has an ok object system which is possibly its only redeeming quality. I found Racket about 4 years ago, and any new project that I work on will be in Racket or CL. I could go on at length about the happy path mentality of python and the apologists who are too ignorant of other people's use ca…
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See https://thenewstack.io/which-programming-languages-use-the-l...
Thanks, that definitely looks like useful data as a starting point. 1. What is the impact of a continuous long-running process? That is, if instead of trying to calculate a result and then shut down, I'm running a web server 24/7, what's the impact of an interpreted language over a compiled language? (Assume requests are few and I'm happy with performance with either.) This not models web servers but things like data…
Developers continue breathing even when they aren't programming.
1: No seperator sign like ";", so you cannot express everything you want in one line. Oneliners are often so useful that I don't want to live without them.
2: By default, it caches the bytecode on disk. This is slow and spills those files into the filesystem. I prefer PHP in this regard, which caches the bytecode in memory.
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> I'm not really sure what your point is in criticizing "farming" to C. If Python is so great how come it can't even express a decent data structure that it needs? I'll happily level the same criticism at Ruby if you like. > You made a false claim. Firstly: This is not High School Debate Club. There isn't some kind of point system. Language and expectations like this are not only counterproductive (in that they essen…
If Python is so great how come it can't even express a decent data structure that it needs? I'm sure you know this is a deliberate design choice/tradeoff. It's arguably turned out to be a bit of a millstone for languages that eventually want to grow up to be general-purpose-ish, but that wasn't as obvious at the time.
I remember having similar conversations with the creator of Io and seeing the Pike mailing list have similar concerns. Hindsight is 20/20.
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I'm not the person you're responding to but what they say resonates with me as a Python developer. I believe Python is quite possibly the best language for a few things * Exploratory programming - such as what data scientists do * Writing programs that will never grow beyond 150LOC, or roughly what fits on a screen + one page down When I have those two constraints met I am almost always choosing Python. Here are some…
> The common "don't use exceptions for control flow" is broken right off the bat with StopIteration. I just think error handling in Python is god awful, really. Python explicitly does not agree with this... The same for a lot of your other complaints. It sounds like you are trying to write some other language in Python. Similarly if someone in a team using Java tried writing Python in Java they would complain a lot a…
Whats the convincing argument for defending this? Ive always heard its just the way python is. Through experience using exceptions for anything other then exceptional situations and errors seems messy.
Two things I don't like about Python: 1: No seperator sign like ";", so you cannot express everything you want in one line. Oneliners are often so useful that I don't want to live without them. 2: By default, it caches the bytecode on disk. This is slow and spills those files into the filesystem. I prefer PHP in this regard, which caches the bytecode in memory.