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Post #192,335
by FuManChu
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1/31/05 2:24:51 AM
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New It does make extensibility a snap.
One thing I love about Python is -- no, back up -- one thing I hate about other languages is that once you've defined/declared a class, it's difficult to extend objcts of that class, especially if you're another developer (and especially one who doesn't want to customize the original code). In Python, it's dead simple: "thing.new_attribute = 5"...you don't have to muck about with getters and setters, subclassing, or private/protected namespaces (unless you *want* to).

Bummer about the "expert". :(
Post #192,402
by static
1/31/05 8:02:04 PM
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New He was very much in love with doing things "correctly".
Unfortunately, he had a great deal of trouble understanding when "correctly" was different from "right". Everyone else was quite a bit more sanguine about The Right Way To Do things. We had quite a row about the object API (in PHP) and how it auto-cached and lazy-loaded information. We experimented with one new object with a more CS-correct way, just to shut him up, and it wasn't a good idea. The inconvenience of one class with a wildly different interface far out-weighed any marginal benefit from the different way of doing it.

As you might have noticed, I tend to distrust over-enthusiastic people. That's what took me so long to get into Debian...

Wade.

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Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
 
Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please

-- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne.
     What makes a "real" programming language? - (drewk) - (20) - Jan. 27, 2005, 10:10:34 PM EST
         I think he's deluding himself. - (static) - (3) - Jan. 27, 2005, 10:29:27 PM EST
             No doubt - (drewk) - (2) - Jan. 27, 2005, 10:30:50 PM EST
                 An anti-example. - (static) - Jan. 27, 2005, 11:20:17 PM EST
                 There are plenty - (jake123) - Jan. 28, 2005, 12:25:48 PM EST
         You can do that in C# -NT - (altmann) - (1) - Jan. 27, 2005, 10:40:36 PM EST
             Perfect :-D -NT - (drewk) - Jan. 27, 2005, 10:42:26 PM EST
         That programmer is an idiot - (ben_tilly) - Jan. 27, 2005, 11:27:36 PM EST
         You can do that in just about any modern language. - (admin) - (1) - Jan. 27, 2005, 11:52:47 PM EST
             No invasion fleet, please! Just nuke it from orbit. -NT - (CRConrad) - Jan. 28, 2005, 03:18:42 AM EST
         Fuel on the fire - (FuManChu) - (6) - Jan. 28, 2005, 01:14:08 AM EST
             Hey, that's neat! - (static) - (2) - Jan. 30, 2005, 08:32:38 PM EST
                 It does make extensibility a snap. - (FuManChu) - (1) - Jan. 31, 2005, 02:24:51 AM EST
                     He was very much in love with doing things "correctly". - (static) - Jan. 31, 2005, 08:02:04 PM EST
             Seems surprisingly like javascript - (tuberculosis) - (2) - Jan. 31, 2005, 08:28:48 PM EST
                 I kinda like JavaScript. - (static) - Jan. 31, 2005, 09:11:18 PM EST
                 Yup; the name binding and scopes are very similar -NT - (FuManChu) - Jan. 31, 2005, 10:36:00 PM EST
         Well, since C often does "declaration only at first use"... - (CRConrad) - Jan. 28, 2005, 03:17:04 AM EST
         Counter example - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Jan. 28, 2005, 04:25:00 AM EST
             Great suggestion; seconded! -NT - (CRConrad) - Jan. 28, 2005, 08:02:46 AM EST
         Sounds like a language holywar brewing over there - (tablizer) - Jan. 28, 2005, 07:16:32 PM EST

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