my dear god this language is ugly - its like the bastard offspring of Basic and Pascal that was raised by COBOL.
Some plucky python programmer wrote a basic Autodia parser based on the PHP handler and suggested it would only be 20 minutes work to patch the PHP version based on a little python knowledge.
yucky yucky yucky!
And I though PHP was a nasty little child
I'm quite surprised at how bad you've found it, though. Generally, I find python code to be pretty readable and comprehensible. Of course, you can write assembly in any language, but on the whole people don't seem to in python.
-Dom
Re:Overreacting
chromatic on 2003-06-27T17:00:06
It's not completely unfair. Both Python and COBOL had "readability" in mind, especially for people who were new to programming. It's no surprise to end up a little verbose in odd places.
Re:Overreacting
TeeJay on 2003-06-27T22:52:56
I find python code over-verbose...why use a symbol for appending something to a value when you can use a word and some brackets???? Because of its verbosity I see python being even more unfriendly to non-english programmers.
I have managed to get a basic parser fetching out methods and discarding comments (hint to language writers out there - don't close multi-line comments with the same symbol it sucks and don't use three of them for god's sake!) and already found that it seems to lack sensible namespaces.
I am looking for a nice tutorial and introduction to python packages and objects.
So far delving deeper has not produced anything I like or that couldn't be done easier and quicker in perl or java.
Python would be a great language if C, Java and Perl didn't already exist - but they all do and offer more. It comes accross as the UNIX VB.
