On 28/09/2020 12:56 pm, Stephane Tougard via Python-list wrote: > On 2020-09-27, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> wrote: >>> In many non declarative language, if I do print($var), it just prints >>> and undefined value with returning an error. >> And that way lie MANY MANY bugs not detected until an undefined value >> actually causes an issue, if that ever happens. In some languages > Totally agree, it's not an acceptable behavior. > > I would not do some Perl without 'use strict'
I came to Python from Pascal, Perl and PHP. For a while my code was full of constructs which came from those languages. As time passed and I lurked on mailing lists I began to see the power of Python. It is incredibly flexible. You can write code the way you used to or you can gradually try to write more "Pythonically". The real beauty of Python in my opinion is genuine OO. And the community. Perl can be extremely terse, much more so than Python but that is where the "write-only" criticism comes from. Perl's terseness can only work for throwaway code.[1] Python is - or can be - quite terse but if written Pythonically is almost self-documenting. You, or anyone else can read it in coming years. Cheers Mike [1] If you live with Perl non-stop I agree Perl code can be read in future. But it requires allocation of serious brain-space for me at least to come back to it. -- Signed email is an absolute defence against phishing. This email has been signed with my private key. If you import my public key you can automatically decrypt my signature and be sure it came from me. Just ask and I'll send it to you. Your email software can handle signing.
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