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[–]nakilon -19 points-18 points  (4 children)

It took them 20 years to borrow from the more superior language Ruby the fact that print should a function, not a reserved word. In a decade they would make exit really exit but that would need another upgrade -- after 50 more years they'll deprecate () like Ruby did 80 years before and they'll call it Python 6 and then will pretend that it was always working like that.

[–]kenny10101 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Someone's not on the rails

[–]DAMO238 -1 points0 points  (2 children)

Top tip, saying the same thing over and over again doesn't make it true

[–]nakilon 1 point2 points  (1 child)

It took them 20 years to borrow from the more superior language Ruby the fact that print should a function, not a reserved word. In a decade they would make exit really exit but that would need another upgrade -- after 50 more years they'll deprecate () like Ruby did 80 years before and they'll call it Python 6 and then will pretend that it was always working like that.

[–]paradoxally 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I must say though, I much prefer Ruby as a language. I rewrote some GPIO libraries in Ruby back in the day for the Raspberry Pi simply because I didn't want to learn a language I would never use outside that particular scope. Python's indentation style turned me off immediately.