Re:Python is Beautiful
by googletron on Sunday April 29, 2012 @12:06PM
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This is exactly what I am trying to get at with the post; for him to say python applications are ugly is ridiculous. http://grokcode.com/746/dear-python-why-are-you-so-ugly/
I get it, but it feels like fighting nonsense with more nonsense though.
Regardless, while I'll grant that most of his assertions are at least true as presented, some of those are questionable - specifically, and maybe I'm the outlier, but I've always thought that the Heroku page was downright ugly, and I much prefer the AppEngine homepage.
Re:Python is Beautiful
by googletron on Sunday April 29, 2012 @12:38PM
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Well the point is to combat the ideal that python applications are ugly. It may be nonsense but that isn't a prequisite in forming opinions in people's minds.
This is one of those nonsense things to me, as there is really very little tying the backend programming language to the presentation layer, except at the bottom, where people are still using the generic Django stylesheets and the like.
In short, that Instagram is pretty has nothing to do with it having been built in Python. It could even be that pretty if it were built in C, or Java, or even (gasp) ASP Classic.