>>96
Probably, because he doesn't like FP.
When did he actually do something to make Python
less FP-friendly that it had previously been? Python lambdas were always shitty (and in my opinion, should be removed entirely), and moving some useless crap to
functools doesn't count (
Python has list comprehensions).
>>11
You could have said Ruby is nasty, Ruby looks like vomit, Ruby's operators are insane, Ruby is not clean like a Lisp-1, etc., but slow? That's the stupidest reason ever. Also, check out alternative Ruby interpreters.
I'm not
>>11, but one of my main reasons for replacing my Ruby use with Python a couple of years ago was the fact that it indeed was
glaciously slow. Even the simplest things like reading shitloads of data from a file into simple data structures (which should, and in any properly implemented language,
is, IO-bound) were mindblowingly slow in Ruby, even when my code basically gave a blowjob to Ruby's garbage collector.
Your other points about Ruby are valid, though.