On 06/12/2013 23:54, 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 see all of the above as being down to poor quality programmers who are
new to Python and have their priorities wrong. The following is
extracted from Steve Maguire's "Writing Solid Code". It's my belief
that this is a reasonable summing up.
Jack's Priority List Jill's Priority List
Correctness Correctness
Global efficiency Testability
Size Global efficiency
Local efficiency Maintainability/clarity
Personal convenience Consistency
Maintainability/clarity Size
Personal expression Local efficiency
Testability Personal expression
Consistency Personal convenience
Jill wants to write good quality, Pythonic code, Jack doesn't, yep?
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