“Python's batteries are leaking”

Re:“Python's batteries are leaking” by rightbyte on Saturday May 18, 2019 @03:01PM (#19949110)

When I first touched Python I had only used C. Is your story similair?

Had I been using Java or Visual Basic or even C++ proirly maybe I wouldn't be so impressed as I were.

I think the mistake Python is doing is messing with it's simplicity with decorations, halfass lambdas and stuff. As a newbie you could understand Python code, while eg. C++ templates were magic. You need to know more Python to understand Python code nowadays.

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Re:“Python's batteries are leaking” by icegreentea2 on Saturday May 18, 2019 @03:08PM (#19949146)

Decorators added were in in 2004, I think lambdas were an original language feature (like... before 2004).

There are other new stuff that might be confusing to beginners (like our mighty walrus operator), but those two examples have been there for effectively forever.

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Re:“Python's batteries are leaking” by rightbyte on Saturday May 18, 2019 @07:24PM (#19950286)

Ok it's maybe just my random perception of the language evolving in unsync with my (moderate) skills in it.

I just had the feeling there's more "stuff" that you need to know.

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