Comments on: Why Python Sucks

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:39:00 +0000

ROFL!

1. Perl is not faster, either not produce smaller code, if you want get

things right. Well, with Perl actually you can produce smaller sources

by GZIP’int em all, and most important that readability of the source

after compressing won’t change that much… :-)

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:35:00 +0000

Docs.python.org is about the least most helpful documentation I’ve ever read. Want a simple example of something? Go elsewhere. If Sphinx is the tool responsible for the awful (the index doesn’t scroll with the page – wfh?), the Sphinx is _not_ an excellent documentation tool.Where I do agree, though, is that Perl is truly, direly, appallingly awful. Oh, and I do (or did) know Perl.

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:30:00 +0000

Python sure does suck. WHen you do find docs, they’re of the form presented at the truly awful docs.python.org – no simple examples and a truly dreadful interface. But Python it’s a vacuum cleaner next to Perl’s black hole of suckiness! I know it’s been said, but Perl is write-only. Time for it to die a lonely, neglected death.
And I have to say that this comment box sucks beyond the scope of either of the above. It doesn’t scroll in Firefox.

By: Theindianmc

Theindianmc — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:44:00 +0000

yo, dont hate, and please dont discriminate, cuz if u do ill come after u, and make u eat my poo.

LOL

By: Theindianmc

Theindianmc — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:41:00 +0000

It depends. Which code doesn’t work?

By: Theindianmc

Theindianmc — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:34:00 +0000

Dude, Perl is way slower than Python.

By: Spaminator

Spaminator — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:23:00 +0000

Not everyone uses Windows. File extensions are meaningless. Microsoft’s version of the Python platform is called .Net. Your compiled .Net “EXE” applications can’t run without installing a massive library. If you would prefer stand-alone applications then you can use an appropriate language such as C++ or Haskell. Have a nice day. :)

By: Pvdmeer

Pvdmeer — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:46:00 +0000

Python isn’t fast. But I think it’s fast enough. I’ve been a long-time user of Perl. Perl is sloppy by default. Python isn’t, and still it’s possible to do a quick five-line experiment without the pain. I think Python is a slow version of Perl (including the awesome amounts of modules), but way more tidy and suited for developing somewhat bigger apps. For developing off-line scientific tools, it’s the weapon of choice (because of the speed of the numpy vector operations). And if you hate a language for it not being able to not make a binary then, you sir, have never heard of package managers. Also, I made apps with Java, and the development process was excruciatingly slow, same for C++ with its gazillion features which all bear caveats. Python is a productive language. And btw, the Python documentation is actually pretty good and widely available. Maybe in 2003 it wasn’t, I don’t know.

By: JoeyJoe

JoeyJoe — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:47:00 +0000

And what’s with all this 2.x versus 3.x crap? Make up your minds people! Where is this language going?

By: JoeyJoe

JoeyJoe — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:23:00 +0000

That is EXACTLY why Python sucks. You nailed it.

By: Doug Hancox

Doug Hancox — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:02:00 +0000

Python’s most critical flaw is the fact that it can’t export ANYTHING as an EXE. And the only way to do so is to essentially trick the program into doing it for you by finding a third party installation app and hoping it takes the bait.

Fuck this programming language.

By: aMoLk

aMoLk — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:16:24 +0000

No problem with whitespaces. I have been programming for 10+ years and I like my code to look neat. I use whitespaces/tabs anyway whenever I’m writing programs, whether its HTML or TCL or Shell or anything else. So, I like a language where I can leverage my whitespacing skill ;)

By: Andrei

Andrei — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:15:59 +0000

I’m a programmer with 13+ years experience in web and desktop applications, and I use Python on occasions (not for the language itself, but for some applications written in Python).

I don’t recall seeing a programming language more hectic that Python. It looks like an April’s Fool joke that caught on with the public, like a hack that people just don’t let go.

I spent a few days reading some books about it and I got pretty good with it, but in many parts I consider it a hack. You want some examples, I assume:
– lists: add an item: append/insert method; get+remove an item: pop method (strange name matching)
– lists: add an item: append/insert method; remove an item: del STATEMENT (that’s right, not a method, but a statement)
– lists: add an item: append/insert method; get the size: len FUNCTION (that’s right, not a method, but a standalone function)
– iterate over items: for dicts use the iteritems method, for lists use the enumerate function
– and many others.

I like programming languages which are either brief, or well designed (so that you can “guess” how API calls will look like before you read about them, by extrapolating your previous experience in that language). Python is none of that. Moreover, IMHO it’s widespread use in Linux’s desktop apps is even hurting Linux’s image as a good desktop OS.

Now the good part: I like Python’s whitespaces matter approach. Again, it has some design problems, but it’s nice.

By: Python3kFTW

Python3kFTW — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:26:22 +0000

Honestly, anyone who accuses Python of lacking documentation or readability is entirely off their tree. Python has:
– Docstrings (access them via help(object) or help() and type the name in)
– docs.python.org, which uses the excellent Sphinx documentation tool
– Most modules come with a readme (although this is common to *just about every* language, people often overlook it)
– Crunchy (http://code.google.com/p/crunchy/) which makes online tutorials ‘come alive’, so to speak, by embedding an interpreter in the browser

Python even has it’s own version of CPAN, the Python Package Index (PyPI, http://pypi.python.org/pypi) with an absolutely huge listing of packages.

And comparing Django and PHP is ridiculous as Django is a framework, PHP is not. This probably explains “anonymous”‘s comment.

The one point I have to agree on is that Python is *S.L.O.W*, and although you can increase it’s speed quite easily (Psyco, Cython, C Extensions, Stackless Python (which is an incredible implementation), etc) and bring it up to scratch.

On whitespace: Yes, Python does use a HUGE amount of whitespace, but as “Just a Developer” pointed out, it’s not all necessary and does drastically increase the readability of your code. Someone tell me this is not criptic: for(@x){s/(http:.*)/urlencode($1)/eg} and this is the problem you will always face with people who don’t know the language they are talking about (and I am no exception, I don’t know ANY Perl)

~sigh~

By: Trimbo

Trimbo — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:21:39 +0000

I love that I typed in “Python Sucks” and your blog came up first.

LOL.