HallÃchen! Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [...] > > [...] Python is going the C++ way: piling feature upon feature, > adding bells and whistles while ignoring or damaging its core > design. I'm new to Python, but I while I skimmed through the "What's new?" of recent versions, I saw the same unfortunate development. Moreover, I dislike the fact that new features are implemented partly in the interpreter and partly in Python itself. It reminds me of TeX/LaTeX, where the enormous flexibility of TeX is used to let it change itself in order to become a LaTeX compiler. However, the underlying constructs are utterly ugly, as are some of Python's features (e.g. __getattr__ and such, and descriptors, in order to get nice class properties). > The new 'perlified' syntax for decorators, Python lost its innocence here: The first really special character, disturbing the former syntax style. Not important, but irritating. > the new static type bonds What is meant by that? > [...] What used to be a cool language will soon be an interpreted > C/C++ without any redeeming value. A real pity... I don't think so, there will be always an enormous difference. But Python seems a little bit chaotic. I looked for a new language for my hobby programming. I used to use Turbo Pascal for 10 years and then C++ for 6 years. A couple of weeks ago, I narrowed my decision to C#, Ruby, and Python. At the moment, I want to go with Python, but you can definitely see that it's the oldest one: Many parts of its syntax are awkward and look like patchwork. TschÃ, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list