[angusgr]

> Foreign Concepts ... I can't see how it's especially dangerous since just about everyone will use list instead.

I think it's potentially dangerous if/when Python newbies from other languages pick up old idioms and (ab)use them thinking they're "Pythonic".

I haven't seen it with a Python codebase, but I have worked on a Java codebase that was developed from scratch by C developers new to Java. They used lots of arrays (same sin), minimal Collections, and lots of for(i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) instead of foreach. Urgh.

So it isn't Python's fault, but I see how it could pose a danger.

[_delirium]

Some of that latter part could just be older Java code; foreach wasn't introduced until Java had been out for 8 years already (2004). I'm under 30 and some of my older Java code uses that style of loop, because it was written in 2002-03 before foreach was available.

[angusgr]

Not this time, this project was written from scratch in Java 6. :)

It's possible they learned Java at some earlier point in their lives, but my understanding was the team came from embedded/systems C backgrounds and I think they just did what felt right.