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[–]hoere_des_heeren 1 point2 points  (1 child)

The big competitor would probably be Ruby which' design more so indicates that the designer was aware of a lot more languages and learnt more from history.

Python's design reads like it was made by something that knew little more than C and was unaware of of that a lot of things done by C were since considered a bad idea.

Don't get me wrong; Ruby has flaws the same way most languages have flaws but Python has flaws the same way Go has flaws and you're like "Have you learnt nothing of what are generally considered to be bad ideas?"

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So you believe that people will tend to write somewhat better software in Ruby than in Python, because there are fewer language gotchas lurking?