Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> writes: > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:20:21 -0500, Steve Holden wrote: > >> Simon Forman wrote: >> [...] >>> As far as the OP rant goes, my $0.02: bad programmers will write bad >>> code in any language, with any tool or system or environment they're >>> given. If you want to avoid bad code there's (apparently) no >>> substitute for smrt programmers who are familiar with the tools they're >>> using, not just the syntax but the underlying conceptual models as >>> well. >>> >> Hear, hear! > > That's all very well, but some languages and techniques encourage the > programmer to write bad code.
That's just BS. Bad code doesn't just write itself. Programmers write bad code. And ignorance is not an excuse. Just because a language allows a programmer to write sloppy code doesn't put the language at fault for the bad code programmers write with it. Any half-way decent programmer should be cognisant of when they're writing bad code and when they're writing good code. They should be able to admit that they don't know enough about a language to be writing programs for money in it. They should be able to see anti-patterns and areas of their code that should be re-factored or re-written. The real underlying problem is the human characteristic that allows us to let ourselves believe that we're better than everyone else or more simply, better than we really are. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
