Comments on: Python Ugliness http://chris.neugebauer.id.au/2008/02/13/python-ugliness/ Indeed it is. Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:48:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Christopher Neugebauer http://chris.neugebauer.id.au/2008/02/13/python-ugliness/#comment-894 Christopher Neugebauer Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:50:33 +0000 http://chris.neugebauer.id.au/2008/02/13/python-ugliness/#comment-894 In that case, I'll try to give my posts a bit more of a specific title -- this one was intended to complement the previous post I wrote: <a href="http://www.noogz.net/website/blog/programming/20080210-PythonQSORT.html" rel="nofollow">Python Pretiness</a>.<br /> <br /> And yes, I certainly agree about giving Perl people a run for their money -- in fact certain people I know refuse to switch to Python simply because they can't do such grand obfuscation :) In that case, I’ll try to give my posts a bit more of a specific title — this one was intended to complement the previous post I wrote: Python Pretiness.

And yes, I certainly agree about giving Perl people a run for their money — in fact certain people I know refuse to switch to Python simply because they can’t do such grand obfuscation :)

]]> By: Ja http://chris.neugebauer.id.au/2008/02/13/python-ugliness/#comment-893 Ja Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:02:26 +0000 http://chris.neugebauer.id.au/2008/02/13/python-ugliness/#comment-893 The title of your post is quite misleading. I came here expecting to read about the ugliness of or in the Python language, but found that it is an attempt to write ugly, non-Pythonic code, in Python. :-)<br /> <br /> Cool, now we can give Scala, Perl, and Ruby bloggers the run for their money, and show them how much more obfuscated Python code can be. :-)<br /> <br /> Most people don't realize that it is clever and intelligent people who can write obfuscated code. The only problem is that people with such intellect forms a very small minority. It is the majority of the ordinary programmers who have to read, maintain, and debug the code, while the intelligent ones who wrote that code moves on to more intelligent projects. The title of your post is quite misleading. I came here expecting to read about the ugliness of or in the Python language, but found that it is an attempt to write ugly, non-Pythonic code, in Python. :-)

Cool, now we can give Scala, Perl, and Ruby bloggers the run for their money, and show them how much more obfuscated Python code can be. :-)

Most people don’t realize that it is clever and intelligent people who can write obfuscated code. The only problem is that people with such intellect forms a very small minority. It is the majority of the ordinary programmers who have to read, maintain, and debug the code, while the intelligent ones who wrote that code moves on to more intelligent projects.

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