On 22/01/2015 04:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Occasionally you find people spreading Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt about
Python. Python is now over 20 years old and one of the most popular
languages in the world no matter how you measure popularity:
http://import-that.dreamwidth.org/1388.html
so you don't often get FUD these days. When you do, it's usually about
whitespace, or "Python is too slow", or occasionally "Python 3 is killing
Python", but the latest FUD is about PEP 484 and type-hinting:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/
Here's a typical example:
Python is already headed towards obscurity. ... it seems that
GvR intends to drive the final nail in python's coffin with
this "type hinting" crap that will convert Python syntax from
a readable pseudo code into a cryptic nightmare.
Type hinting violates the very ESSENCE of what Python was
meant to be, that is: a "clean and intuitive syntax".
(Google for it if you care for the source.)
So it's doomed again, big deal, it's the third time this week and the
dustmen simply won't take it.
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My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.
Mark Lawrence
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