Mike Meyer wrote: > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> You're the one that wants to use the hammer to do whatever it is, not > >> me. I don't believe in silver bullets. Python is good at what it > >> does. If I need a different tool, I use a different tool, rather than > >> try and mangle a good tool into something it's not. Such attempts are > >> pretty much doomed. They nearly inevitably produce a tool that's not > >> as good at what the original did as the original, and not as good at > >> whatever new task it's being mangled to do as a tool that was > >> designed for that in the first place. > > And again. > > This isn't a Python thing, it's a believe about tools in general - > that you should choose the right tool for the job. It isn't applied > very often to hardware tools because they aren't as mallable as > software tools, and have in general been around and improving for a > long time. But it applies to programming languages, data formats, and > similar more mallable things. Changes that make them better at what > they do are welcome; changes that make the into what they aren't are > viewed with great suspicion. > > Maybe Python attracts people who share that belief. After all, TRTFTJ > is implies TSBOOWTDI, and vice versa. I was not talking about the believe, I was talking about the way you presented it. You are setting up an "imaginary" me, which is not me. And that is the kind of arguments I saw, I believe this many times are done unconciously.
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