> Ultimately, this is why I like Python. The belief that best practices shouldn't be optional, and that they shouldn't be difficult creates a community where you actively want to go and learn from people's code.
This place I know was one of the earliest adopters of Python, and the code they barfed up must be the buggiest, ugliest (GUI), slowest in its class software I've ever seen. It's so buggy, it's insane: typos, calling methods that don't exist, assuming arbitrary user input does not have 'keywords' in them...
They couldn't write code in C, so they thought the problem was with the language and switched to Python.
I say, lousy programmers, if they don't want to look for another occupation, should stick with Java - at least the typos will be caught more frequently.
This place I know was one of the earliest adopters of Python, and the code they barfed up must be the buggiest, ugliest (GUI), slowest in its class software I've ever seen. It's so buggy, it's insane: typos, calling methods that don't exist, assuming arbitrary user input does not have 'keywords' in them...
They couldn't write code in C, so they thought the problem was with the language and switched to Python.
I say, lousy programmers, if they don't want to look for another occupation, should stick with Java - at least the typos will be caught more frequently.