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> PS: I know some fine people who prefer Python - I don't hold that against them (much). I know some fine people who use PHP - I try manfully not to hold that against them.

Neither do I, I like both Python and vim.

It's the community which has nasty habits.°

And there is usually a direct correlation between their own skills on the tool and the desire of badmouthing others.*

Like I know a guy who can barely write a page of Python but keeps telling everyone that Perl is only a bunch of Regex.

I'm an outspoken Anti-FUD activist, stoicism won't stop this.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

°) I don't like PHP tho, but I don't hold it against it's users.

*) It's human, we all want to belong to a tribe and the more insecure we are, the bigger the desire to be better than the neighboring tribe.

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Re^11: How would you indent this?
by GrandFather (Saint) on Mar 18, 2021 at 22:16 UTC

    I didn't appreciate how really and truly awful PHP is until I was involved in porting a large website, hand rolled in PHP, to Drupal. After that experience my somewhat informed opinion of PHP is pretty low.

    Python on the other hand is a capable language. A pity about the version 2/3 debacle. Its biggest down side is the "One True Way" philosophy which seems to extend, as you imply, to the Python community's intolerance of any other way.

    Optimising for fewest key strokes only makes sense transmitting to Pluto or beyond
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