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		nrakx on May 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Writing Python like it's Rust That applies to Python 2.7 and the code that Tim Peters writes. It does not apply to current Python and the coding styles that most people employ. Current coding styles are either: - Java-like ravioli, with class hierarchies that no one understands. - Academic functional and iterator spaghetti, written by academics who think Python offers the same guarantees as Haskell. Both styles result in severely broken code bases.

fastasucan on May 21, 2023 | [–]

Are you really saying that these are the two coding styles of Python? Any source for this claim?

baq on May 21, 2023 | [–]

and classes are most of the time not needed anyway, it's just Java programmers that aren't used to the idea that code can be perfectly correct and readable without a single class

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