yoda wrote: > It was 2a.m.... I was writing my first enterprise scale application in > Python.... the logic just flowed from my mind onto the keyboard and was > congealed into the most beautiful terse lines of code I had ever > seen... > > It was 3a.m.... I knew I had to sleep.... work the next day or rather, > in a few hours.... but Python somehow brought out all the logic. All > the verbosity of my thought was purified into clean beautiful logic... > > The Python was wringing the cruft out of my thought and letting me > generate wonderfully clean code.... I have to sleep... this is the last > line of code i'm writing... > > It was 4a.m.... just one more def... then I'll sleep.. > > It was 5 a.m.... just one more class...I'll sleep now.. I've got to go > to work in a few hours.... > > It was 6 a.m.... just one more lambda...I'll really sleep > now...seriously... I've got to go to work in a few hours.... > > Python is a very dangerous language... It is addictive.. Once you start > coding, you simply can't stop.... No language has every made(allowed?) > me to think so clearly before.... This is madness.. I hardly every > sleep... I simply can't stop coding when I use Python.... > > This is scary... maybe I should switch back to Java: a language so > unwieldy that I'm driven away from the keyboard in disgusted > frustration.... > > I need to sleep.. but Python won't let me... Python is a dangerous > language....
Well, Python does not cause sleeping problems for me. In fact it lets me sleep pretty well, because it enables me to write HQ software - in contrast to other languages that just cause ugly nightmare after reaching a certain degree of complexity. But Python is the only software in general that - after years of using it - still makes me want to shout 'Python ist einfach nur geil!' (german, loosly translated: 'Python simply kicks ass!') almost every time I dive into something new. The only thing that comes close to it is TDD (test driven development) - and that's not a software product. Since I'm applying it, it greatly improved the confidence in my code and generally increased the fun in programming. And TDD also has its downsides: because you are dividing your work into much smaller steps, each step finalized with a 'all tests passed - your code works *exactly* as specified' (if you treat the testsuite as the formal specification, which I do), then you are tempted to celebrate all these small successes with a small reward. Baaad thing, if you smoke like I do... -- Benjamin Niemann Email: pink at odahoda dot de WWW: http://www.odahoda.de/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
