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Thursday June 26, 2003
03:58 PM
my first foray into python...
my dear god this language is ugly - its like the bastard offspring of Basic and Pascal that was raised by COBOL.
Some plucky python programmer wrote a basic Autodia parser based on the PHP handler and suggested it would only be 20 minutes work to patch the PHP version based on a little python knowledge.
yucky yucky yucky!
And I though PHP was a nasty little child
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Overreacting (Score:2)
I'm quite surprised at how bad you've found it, though. Generally, I find python code to be pretty readable and comprehensible. Of course, you can write assembly in any language, but on the whole people don't seem to in python.
-Dom
Re:Overreacting (Score:1)
It's not completely unfair. Both Python and COBOL had "readability" in mind, especially for people who were new to programming. It's no surprise to end up a little verbose in odd places.
Re:Overreacting (Score:2)
why use a symbol for appending something to a value when you can use a word and some brackets???? Because of its verbosity I see python being even more unfriendly to non-english programmers.
I have managed to get a basic parser fetching out methods and discarding comments (hint to language writers out there - don't close multi-line comments with the same symbol it sucks and don't use three of them for god's sake!) and already found that it seems to lack sensible namespac
@JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
print reverse @JAPH;