On 12/6/13 6:54 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
Does anyone else feel like Python is being dragged too far in the direction of long, complex, multiline one-liners? Or avoiding temporary variables with descriptive names? Or using regex's for everything under the sun? What happened to using classes? What happened to the beautiful emphasis on readability? What happened to debuggability (which is always harder than writing things in the first place)? And what happened to string methods? I'm pleased to see Python getting more popular, but it feels like a lot of newcomers are trying their best to turn Python into Perl or something, culturally speaking.
I agree with you that those trends would be bad. But I'm not sure how you are judging that "Python" is being dragged in that direction? It's a huge community. Sure some people are obsessed with fewer lines, and micro-optimizations, and other newb mistakes, but there are good people too!
--Ned, ever the optimist. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
