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Python failed because it hasn't shaken off its toy language infrastructure that it has had since ten years ago. I mean seriously, interpreted bytecodes? No JIT compiling, no partial type inference? People, Lisp environments have had these things for literally decades now and Lisp is fucking Lisp instead of a kinda-sorta toy language like Python!
It's still hanging on to the proven-sucky half-assery known as reference counting! The runtime doesn't fucking multithread because of the "one big mutex" way they ended up half-arsing it, so any multithreaded extensions you have are just doing several I/O operations in parallel if you're lucky. Even then they are using operating system threads and so won't get the benefit of extra speedy thread switching you otherwise would with ULTs like in GNU Pth!
I don't mean that stuff like that didn't exist. Psyco, as I understand, is pretty good for things where it fucking lets itself work properly. What my mind boggles at is why the _fuck_ is the compiler from Psyco not part of the standard Python runtime, when it could just as well be?
What pisses me off most about Python though is that so many people are using Guido's cheap toy for serious work and getting bit on the ass for their trouble. Oh, and the besmirching of Monty Python's name, that too.
Seriously, suck and fail, people, suck and fail. About the only good thing to come out of Python was the kinda-sorta indent-based syntax and binding to name-mangled C++ class implementations dynamically.
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Anonymous2006-12-27 7:12
FAKE
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Anonymous2006-12-27 17:41
But...but...I like python! (IHBT)
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Anonymous2006-12-27 19:12
>>3
Troll, most points invalid, some valid points (like all good trolls), but the last paragraph gives it all. I love forced indenting (makes idiot write decently), but many people criticize it, and I think nobody likes name mangling, another highly criticized point.
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Anonymous2006-12-27 21:06
Java does everything python does except safter and faster. The only thing python has over Java is eval.
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Anonymous2006-12-28 5:25
>>6
Care to debate those points you seem to think invalid? Seriously, dude, "invalid"? What are you, the Debate Authority?
Pyhton was designed to be easy for beginners.
I personally prefer Pascal for that purpose, but I
find Python adequate. I have needed a compiler, so
thanks for the Pyco refernce. Do you also know of a
compiler for bash or zsh scripts?
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Anonymous2007-01-02 14:51
>>18
remove the $ signs and then compile it as python code
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the lord of OMGWTF2007-01-02 14:52
shut up, and switch to C++
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Anonymous2007-01-03 0:41
shut up and learn C
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Anonymous2007-01-03 19:51
>>20 >>21
failed you choose a language depending on what you want to do
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Anonymous2007-01-03 20:47
boo
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Anonymous2007-01-04 1:22
>>22
no, you just use Lisp, it's the perfect language.
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Anonymous2007-01-04 1:28
>>24
Give me a single decent universally-supported Lisp first.
Common Lisp is a travesty. Maybe Scheme will kick its mouldy old ass eventually.