[whiskeyjack]

I'm not even a big Python fan. I don't hate it. It's just not my favourite... and every language has it's warts.

I can understand the author not LIKING certain ways that Python works but I tire of philosophical differences in language design decisions being branded wrong.

I can accept that the author doesn't like a bunch of things but this annoys me:

  36 chars against 18.

Comparing languages by character count is fruitless. It's like comparing pieces of music by the number of notes or food by the number of ingredients. You have to decide where the important numeric barrier is, which is pretty arbitrary. For me, programming is more thinking that typing. It just seems like a ridiculous comparison.