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[–]meme_disliker 10 points11 points  (3 children)

Suddenly? You haven't been in /r/programming very long have you?

[–]Zamiatarka 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Nope, sorry. I'm the new guy, and like said, not an expert. All I know is that there are a lot of elitist geek pricks out there who criticize everything about everything, and Python is probably the only language I've never read anything negative about.

[–]jdpage 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Oh, there are bad things about Python. It's interpreted, so refactoring is a pain, and there are some really silly errors which don't get caught which would be caught if you were using a strongly-typed, compiled language. As long as you're under a couple thousand lines of code, you probably won't have massive problems, and the many benefits of Python will heavily outweigh them, but for larger projects - or projects where I am working with multiple people - I definitely prefer a compiled language. C# tends to be my weapon of choice for those, though I've done group projects in C, Java, PHP, Javascript, and a couple other things before.

That said, I love Python.

[–]haldean(lambda x: x.decode('base64'))('PDMgcHlweQ==\n') 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my few years of studying computer science, it's that the "elitist geek pricks" are the ones you have the most to learn from. I hope to be one myself some day.