Comments on: Python: You’re Doing It Wrong

By: Darryl Dixon

Darryl Dixon — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:16:28 +0000

Clearly TRWTF is that he sends errors and normal output both to stdout, when he should be sending ERR to stderr…

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:29:46 +0000

Hey, it has a nice MUMPSish feeling to it!

By: StephenThorne

StephenThorne — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:34:42 +0000

Clearly this person is doing it wrong.

S(”mkdir -p “+VAR)

should be:

M(VAR)

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:08:31 +0000

It looks like MUMPS

By: Nathen

Nathen — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:27:53 +0000

I think it might be interesting to ponder what language this person normally thinks in, My guess is for COBOL or FORTRAN ( probably FORTRAN ).

By: elblogg » Blog Archive » Unreadable code

elblogg » Blog Archive » Unreadable code — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:38:07 +0000

[...] This guy is obviously concerned about “job security”. (not the blog author, but the code author) [...]

By: pv

pv — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:26:02 +0000

Hm. I think it’s the handiwork of a troll. Certainly it’s not a Python beginner. Consider that this fellow:

1. understands functions and methods are first-class, and can be bound to a different name.

2. knows about lambda.

3. knows about assert.

4. knows about __file__.

Taking a step back, as others noted, it’s not like keystrokes are saved, since most aliases are used only one. On the other hand, actually spelling out something rude would be a touch obvious, gauche.

Thanks for sharing, either way.

By: machina

machina — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:59:24 +0000

XD!!! Funny! It makes you want to ask “If you hate python so much, why code in it at all?”

By: Ankur

Ankur — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:44:18 +0000

It be better if you write new code and show how it should have been done.

By: El Hack

El Hack — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:18:43 +0000

I have seen similar before in KSH.
He(She) is doing it again in Python… ARRGH!