Are the critiques in "All the things I hate about Python" valid?
Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Tue Feb 20 18:15:44 EST 2018
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 17:11:05 +0000, Wild, Marcel, Prof <mwild at sun.ac.za>
wrote:
> I scarcely know Python, and I have no intention delving into it further.
> I was forced to use Python because it features binary decision
> diagrams, which MATHEMATICA doesn't. Coming from Mathematica the
> account of Nathan Murphy reads like a nightmare.
I dare say that was Nathan Murphy's intention. But the ironic thing is
that by Murphy's standards, Mathematica suffers the same flaws as Python:
it to is a dynamically typed language with little or no compile-time type
safety.
--
Steve
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