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by sergeykish 2181 days ago
Pythons "there is only way" is too stiff for me. It may sound nice but in reality does not work, on top of my head - package managers, slots, itertools vs array comprehension, discouraged lambda, and whole python 2 or 3.

A sample of Google Python code I've tried to fix recently [1]. A ton of nothingness. You can produce it in any language.

You are too harsh on Perl design. I thought ruby was popular because it is great language. Nope. Cool kids moved to server side JavaScript. And tried to hide prototype oriented origins, they've added class friends privates now and a ton of other questionable features.

It is all about version 5 dead. I've red Perl 6 Apocalypses, I'd ship. Too bad there was no smooth transition path.

[1] https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gsutil/blob/master/gs...