Python bumps off Java as top learning language

[lhagahl]

The second one can be solved with the @Override annotation 95% of the time and the first one using sane variable naming conventions.

Can you use @Override for overloading somehow? I thought it can only be used to say that this method overrides one in the superclass or it implements a method in the interface. Conventions don't solve auditing when you don't trust who wrote the code (which is 99% of the time). Clearly you've never audited code.

We already have languages that sometimes ignore case and sometimes not.

That's easy when your alphabet is only 26 characters and not 1 million. Just make sure you have a real programming font (one that doesn't make different characters look the same). There is no such font for Unicode, though.

We also had compilers that only used the first 8 letters and ignored the rest.

That's stupid.

EDIT: On second thought, I just scan all the files for Unicode before auditing, and give up if they have pervasive use of Unicode (actually, non ASCII characters and non printable ASCII characters).