Dear Python
Mar. 9th, 2010 12:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pasitheaDear Python,
Everyone says you're great and I'd like to believe them. I'd like to ignore that you are dynamically typed like every language ever conceived of by a visual BASIC programmer, and I'd give you the benefit of the doubt on your Fortran-like indention weirdness and your stupid grammar in IF statements that isn't like any other c-like language around for really no good reason.
But seriously Python, I could forgive all that if you'd actually just f***ing work when I go to use you. But no. I do something with 2D arrays and you do something funky with copying memory here and there because you can't decide if you're pass by reference or pass by value. I have some fantasy about pickling some data and shipping it to memcached to get around a bad schema someone else made but no. Inexplicably I can pickle the data but not unpickle it. You have to be broken.
And you're constantly broken, Python. Sure the basic stuff more or less functions but I go to use something more complex and it's buggy, broken, or implemented in some weird half-assed way. You're a slacker language, Python. I've experienced less frustration debugging other people's PERL code to writing stuff in you. You are coy, seductive, seemingly simple and beautiful but it's all a lie isn't it Python? I should have known better than to trust a language that couldn't even keep consistent internal syntaxes.
No love,
me
Everyone says you're great and I'd like to believe them. I'd like to ignore that you are dynamically typed like every language ever conceived of by a visual BASIC programmer, and I'd give you the benefit of the doubt on your Fortran-like indention weirdness and your stupid grammar in IF statements that isn't like any other c-like language around for really no good reason.
But seriously Python, I could forgive all that if you'd actually just f***ing work when I go to use you. But no. I do something with 2D arrays and you do something funky with copying memory here and there because you can't decide if you're pass by reference or pass by value. I have some fantasy about pickling some data and shipping it to memcached to get around a bad schema someone else made but no. Inexplicably I can pickle the data but not unpickle it. You have to be broken.
And you're constantly broken, Python. Sure the basic stuff more or less functions but I go to use something more complex and it's buggy, broken, or implemented in some weird half-assed way. You're a slacker language, Python. I've experienced less frustration debugging other people's PERL code to writing stuff in you. You are coy, seductive, seemingly simple and beautiful but it's all a lie isn't it Python? I should have known better than to trust a language that couldn't even keep consistent internal syntaxes.
No love,
me
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Re: Here is how I do it
Date: 2010-03-09 06:04 pm (UTC)If I cut out the memcached entirely and say
The second line pukes for this library object.