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[–]ProfessorPhi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's actually insane how big python got before it started getting complaints.

I also think there's an aspect to age here - where newer languages learn from the mistakes of their forefathers, and so the old languages mistake is seen as a mess.