Re:Why I'm still using Python
by JKCalhoun on Saturday December 31, 2022 @04:59AM
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> On the other hand, some features are simply over the heads of beginners, making the code found in packages practically unreadable.
That's too bad. I taught myself Python last year but have kept it pretty "101". That is, I write code simply. Since I am new to Python I don't know if the unreadable code you're describing is because it needs to be (perhaps I am still tooling around in the parking lot of Python) or if it is the result of programmers being too cool for school (ha ha).
Perhaps if the latter I ought to blame the language for giving programmers a basement of esoterica to plunder rather than the programmers themselves.
As obtuse as C could get with pointer arithmetic and the cryptic looking "question-mark-operator", there really wasn't much esoteric stuff in C. Contrast that to my experience with Swift where seemingly every week or so I would come across cryptic code where someone was using a capital T or some bizarre case expression I am unable to mentally parse.
> Turbo Pascal
You suddenly made me miss an ex-girlfriend. Maybe they still code in Turbo Pascal in Portlandia.
Re:Why I'm still using Python
by Tozen on Saturday December 31, 2022 @07:02PM
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There's a fine one just like the ex, Free Pascal, waiting at https://wiki.freepascal.org/ to be checked out. Now the dream can become reality, but do take into account that satisfaction can depend on being realistic.
That's too bad. I taught myself Python last year but have kept it pretty "101". That is, I write code simply. Since I am new to Python I don't know if the unreadable code you're describing is because it needs to be (perhaps I am still tooling around in the parking lot of Python) or if it is the result of programmers being too cool for school (ha ha).
Perhaps if the latter I ought to blame the language for giving programmers a basement of esoterica to plunder rather than the programmers themselves.
As obtuse as C could get with pointer arithmetic and the cryptic looking "question-mark-operator", there really wasn't much esoteric stuff in C. Contrast that to my experience with Swift where seemingly every week or so I would come across cryptic code where someone was using a capital T or some bizarre case expression I am unable to mentally parse.
> Turbo Pascal
You suddenly made me miss an ex-girlfriend. Maybe they still code in Turbo Pascal in Portlandia.
I can dream.