On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 07:34:22PM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: > On 2/1/20 12:30 am, Marc Chantreux wrote: > > * the python community was unfair comparing the langages (using ugly > > perl code and nice python counterparts). instead of taking time to > > explain all the biases, perl community repetedly asserted that the > > authors of those article were incompetents and gone away. > > Heh, I've heard Perl described as executable line noise, and for sure, > it will let you write code like that. > > But so does C. There's even a contest for doing exactly that. > > I've seen some pretty ugly Python code too.
Not to beat a dead horse, but most of the python configury stuff, including scons, is pretty shitty. Lots of really bad pseudo-OO stuf (hey let's use that cool feature just because we can) I hate when I have to fix python configure... it looks like a bunch of complete beginners set up to reinvent a square wheel. python is definitely my #1 most-hated language when fixing configure in ports. Yes, it beats autoconf and libtool by a large margin.
