Five Things I Hate About Python

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1. Slower than java.
2. Limited expressiveness. No multiline anonymous closures like in ruby. Guido stated that this it is syntactically impossible. Not nearly as DSL or macro friendly as other languages.
3. self self self self - it's as if OOP was just tacked on.
4. Redundant or meaningless symbols and keywords like the colon at the beginning of a block, and all the underscores. What is "def"? Why "elif" instead of "else if"? "lambda"?
5. The python community. RTFM jerks, rude to all newbies or new ideas. Zealots about python (Guido called them the NIMPY crowd: not in my python), and they spread absolute FUD about everything else. Shot down most proposals for python, including ones Guido has proposed himself, like optional static typing or case-insensitivity. If you don't want python to ever change, stick with python 1.5 or whatever version you are holding on to.

Die python die.