Poll on Eval in Python

Kazimir Majorinc email at false.false
Wed Oct 14 06:11:57 EDT 2009


                THE RESULTS OF THE POLLS
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.                      Lisp       Python       Ruby

Eval is evil,
harmful or at
least unnecessary   2 (4.9%)     7 (21.9%)     0 (0.0%)
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Eval is useful
but overused       11 (26.8%)    6 (18.8%)     9 (29.0%)
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Eval has just the
right place        16 (39.0%)   10 (31.3%)    19 (61.3%)
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Eval is useful
but neglected       3 (7.3%)     4 (12.5%)     1 (3.2%)
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Eval is a single
most important
feature             5 (12.2%)    0 (0.0%)      0 (0.0%)
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I do not care
for eval            4 (9.8%)     5 (15.6%)     2 (6.5%)


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Kazimir Majorinc
blog: http://kazimirmajorinc.blogspot.com



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