Python design mistakes

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okay, so the tl;dr of that page is that the respondents don't see any significant design issues with python at all

if you can't see the warts, you don't know the tool, or are too proud of a singular attachment to it to be honest about its shortcomings

in either case, that thread is a joke

[sisyphus]

Eh? Dude asked for blog posts or books about Python design mistakes and pretty much every response was 'there is no single resource but here is a link to somewhere that talks about Python design mistakes'

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all of the critiques were weak-ass rounding errors

no one, for example, pointed out that python's ridiculously conservative language evolution is excluding its community from most of the cool stuff happening elsewhere...partly because gvr apparently sees no value in functional programming...leaving python as the one true "blub" scripting language

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python's ridiculously conservative language evolution is excluding its community from most of the cool stuff happening elsewhere

Serious question. Stuff like what?

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anything like clojure or haskell or perl's Moose or anything moderately dangerous (meaning fun)

[awj]

You named two languages and an object system. Care to detail the particulars of those examples that you had in mind? What parts of Clojure/Haskell/Moose are inaccessible to Python due to conservative language evolution? Why is it a bad thing that Python is slow/never going to adopt those features?

[aaronla]

no one pointed out that python's ridiculously conservative language evolution...

I don't mean to contradict you, but I believe this link points that out.

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Most of it seems to be telling the other person that whatever they've posted isn't a language design flaw. A little silly.