kosh@aesaeion.com wrote:
Are you telling me that you have not seen badly commented code?
That's not 'bad python', that's underdocumented python. And, for there cord, I find python one of the easier languages to understand when it _has_ been underdocumented. I might even go so far as to say that python is one of the few languages that doesn't need heavy commenting ;-)
Cut and paste code?
What's wrong with that?
Incorrect comment code?
And in english?
Heavy abuse of lambda, map, filter?
Define heavy abuse...
Almost all of those are done in every language and they all make bad code. Python tries to encourage good code but it does not prevent you from writing bad code.
Oh but it does, think of the rules on indentation at the very least!
Maybe a lot of bad things have been built by humans. Maybe that says something about humans.
It does indeed.
Maybe you're a perl user too?
Nope I have not written perl.
You should try it, I think you'd like it, it's got lots of things that can be used to make very graceful, small, programs but that can also be abused t owrite indecipherable crap :-) cheers, Chris (who will be ducking out of this thread soon as it always was a futile waste of time, but I think there's enough evidence in the mail archives now that I don't feel guilty about newbies being lead down the DTML road...)