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Re:Apache loses Java showdown vote to Oracle by rbanffy on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @10:38AM (#1979332)
> any misspelling of variables could result in extremely difficult to find bugs

Weird. Unless all you do is to attribute them values, Python will complain when you try to use a name that's not in the current namespace.

> The lame anonymous functions

I too complained a lot about them. In the end, all I had to do was to declare the function in the closest scope and pass it to whatever would use the anon function. No big deal.

> warning when you use an unbound variable

Python throws an error when you try to use an unbound name. Python is not BASIC.

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