SV: Python Productivity over C++

[Eric Lee Green]

Michal Vitecek wrote:
>  this is highly debatable - properly written C/C++ source is pretty well
>  readable and self-documenting. similarly, badly written python source
>  makes it as unreadable as in other languages - there's not a point in
>  trying to prevent people from writing (un)readable source code.

It's harder to write unreadable Python source because you can't write code
like, hmm,

opendir(FOO,\"%s\");@files=readdir(FOO);foreach (@files) { if
(/^[^\\.].*\\.txt$/) { print \"%s/$_\\n\";};};closedir(FOO);

since Python enforces proper indentation and limits you to one statement to
line.

Yes, you can write unreadable Python code. But you have to work at it.

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