[Tfug] Python

[Bexley Hall]

--- On Tue, 6/9/09, cara <pinkgranite at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009 at 2:02 PM, Eric Gearhart <eric at nixwizard.net>
> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 1:46 PM, cara<pinkgranite at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Which one is nirvana, Python 2 or Python 3?
> 
> 3, for this reason (imho of course): http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0238/
> 
> Sorry for hijacking TFUG by the way folks... python's,
> er, unixy...
> 
> it's flexible and it just works most of the time
> 
> yep ... "it just works most of the time" ...
> I remain bitter. My former boss forced me to use
> python ZSI for a Web Service client. It was terrible.
>  Python's dynamic typing couldn't tell if something
> was a string or an array. The code it generated made looking
> at legacy perl scripts a joy.
> 
> For python lovers in my office, I designed a T-shirt:
> Python
> it's a string ...no, it's an
> array ...no, a string ...
> um ... no, an array ...barf

Ghetto.
Suburb.
Ghetto.
...

I abhor languages that try to be smarter than the programmer.
That's the beauty (?) of C -- cast it to whatever you want
it to be!  :-/