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On Jan 16, 2014 12:11 PM, "Volodymyr Bezobiuk" <dedoogun@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Lua seemed like stupid, slow C to him then.
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> Quintessentially!
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> I once worked on python code written by C++ programmers learning python on the fly. So do understand what you mean :)
Indeed, one of the worst pieces of Python code I've ever seen was created by a Java programmer, full of getters and setters and other "javisms". [1]
When I was little my father used to teach me how to speak English, and he once said "when speaking English, you should think in English, don't simply translate Portuguese". I guess it applies to computer languages as well...
[1] This is such a common problem there's a "Python is not Java" post: http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html