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Re:Thank You, Guido by VectorLock on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @01:02PM (#21399924)
Some of the syntax changes are barely different (print statement a function instead of a keyword, good) but a lot of new things are added that I would consider to be syntactic sugar (walrus operator, for example) that threaten to detract from the two biggest things that drew me to Python: clean syntax and obvious understandability.
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Re:Thank You, Guido by gowld on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @01:31PM (#21400242)
Python allows imperative code with side effects in imported modules, as well as the "else" statement for "for" loops, so Python has never guaranteed obvious understandability.
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Re:Thank You, Guido by VectorLock on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @03:22PM (#21401492)
Sure there are plenty of things that aren't perfect in Python, but I think it was the best of all viable candidates that came closest to that goal.
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