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> It's just as bad as C/C++ allowing clobbering over memory.

That's a good parallel.

> My point was he's using inexperience and/or familiarity with C/C++ as a reason to "hate" it.

I have less familiarity with C/C++ than Python and I hate it because it's not about language perspective. It's bad language design, for such a high level language. Inclusion wrapped with execution is unsafe and has an easy fix for most language interpreters. Don't allow execution during a declaration. If you want to do metaprogramming, there are other ways that don't break the paradigm (rewriting files before inclusion, chaining programs, etc).