Re:Zed finishes Learn Python The Hard Way
by sigzero on Wednesday September 29, 2010 @11:33AM
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Don't blame Perl. Blame the programmers and your methodology that allowed them to do that.
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Re:Zed finishes Learn Python The Hard Way
by chromatic on Wednesday September 29, 2010 @12:17PM
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You can always delay fixing a social problem by switching technologies.
Re:Zed finishes Learn Python The Hard Way
by jacobolus on Wednesday September 29, 2010 @09:03PM
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You’re implying that language syntax is primarily technical rather than social. I’m not sure I can agree. The reason that Python code uses standard idioms most places you go is that the larger-scale Python community is committed to quite a different set of social norms than the Perl community.
Pulling in that language-community momentum can definitely make a difference to the social/technical dynamics inside a smaller group.
Re:Zed finishes Learn Python The Hard Way
by chromatic on Wednesday September 29, 2010 @11:05PM
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You’re implying that...
... if you have multiple developers who cannot or will not find some way to write maintainable code, you have a problem independent of language.
I've maintained some hideous code written by people who had no business being professional programmers. In every case, adhering to a handful of very simple rules would have improved their code dramatically. Only one case needed a language change, and that one was away from a proprietary 4GL.