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• Second order effects of language syntax (Score:2)

  by ziggy (25)

  When I was working in the Great White North, I was working with a few Perl programmers that were thrown onto a Python+Zope project for the oddest of reasons. They were smart. They picked up Python without any difficulty. They learned how Zope wanted them to write and structure web apps, eventually.
  
  After a few months on the project, they had some interesting insights into the different world views of Perl and Python. A moderately experienced Perl programmer can skim over a random piece of Perl code and i
  • Re:Second order effects of language syntax (Score:1)

    by Aristotle (5147) <pagaltzis@gmx.de> on 2007.09.10 19:31 (#57698) Homepage Journal

    The unintentional side effect is that a moderately experienced Python programmer needs to read, rather than skim, each and every Python program he picks up to determine if it’s total crap, moderately good, well-written and crystal clear, clever for good reasons, or written while drunk.

    That’s how I feel about Java. Regardless of how crappy the code, it always looks reasonable on a microscopic level.

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