Python Considered Harmful

[Al Christians]

Eric Lee Green wrote:
> 
> a bit of a troll ...
> 

Python works great for me about 90% of the time.  The other 10%,
usually when working on larger programs, I have problems similar
to what you describe.  These problems are usually symptoms of 
coding before thinking, which is easy in Python, or of coding 
after thinking not too good, which, somewhat surprisingly, 
happens in any language.  These problem programs are characterized
by classes that are under-designed with grievously sordid interfaces.

When I realize that I've made a mess and have to start over on 
these 10% of projects, I will implement the new version in a different
language, not Python. It might be that some other languages are better 
suited to certain problems, that other languages somehow prompt me to
think more clearly where I've previously come up short, or that it is
just easier to blame a language and not myself.  I can always find 
another language, but I've never found another self.  Meanwhile, the 
90% (YMMV +/- 2.5%) success rate of cybermaniacal clueless coding in
Python is very nice.


Al