[broseph]

Just for the record: I used Python at work because I had to; I'd rather have been writing Java.

The titanic investment bank that I used to work for started a major rewrite of its entire set of booking and risk systems in which everything was to be written in Python. It immediately assigned hundreds of programmers to the task, shepherded by a "core team" eager to use every feature of the language. The result was a perfect example of the problems with Python in the large. Enormous type hierarchies mingled with copious use of eval; there was no structure at all to much of the code.

It's possible to write terrible code in any language, of course, but using Java would have been one way to curb some of the worst impulses of the low-quality programmers.

[lucian1900]

It seems that it would be much better to hire less and better programmers.