elegant?? It's 2014 and Guido is talking about event loops.
beautiful??? Atrocious more like.
Python is terribly put together (I'd say designed but it's clear no such process has taken place). It's a language that,
like PHP and to some extent Perl before it, rewards idiotic behavior, makes it extremely easy to end up with horrible
unmaintainable code and requires strict discipline and a lot of experience in order for it to "work" in anything that's not exploratory/throw-away in nature.
Of course the (mostly?) clueless masses love it, because they feel empowered. But really ask yourself, what has Python brought to the table in terms of paradigm shifts? It's no Lisp, Haskell or Ocaml.
Hell, even Java looks to be better, especially for beginner/mediocre programmers.
beautiful??? Atrocious more like.
Python is terribly put together (I'd say designed but it's clear no such process has taken place). It's a language that, like PHP and to some extent Perl before it, rewards idiotic behavior, makes it extremely easy to end up with horrible unmaintainable code and requires strict discipline and a lot of experience in order for it to "work" in anything that's not exploratory/throw-away in nature.
Of course the (mostly?) clueless masses love it, because they feel empowered. But really ask yourself, what has Python brought to the table in terms of paradigm shifts? It's no Lisp, Haskell or Ocaml.
Hell, even Java looks to be better, especially for beginner/mediocre programmers.
Bleh.