Comment by kazinator
3 years ago
> It’s also a feature you never ever have to know about or touch.
The "never have to know or touch" argument applies only to the lone hacker working on a completely new project with no inherited legacy code.
3 years ago
> It’s also a feature you never ever have to know about or touch.
The "never have to know or touch" argument applies only to the lone hacker working on a completely new project with no inherited legacy code.
Indeed. Most Python code bases I have seen are maxing out all obscure features like those in the article. In practice, Python today is one of the most unreadable languages in existence.