Talk:Python (programming language)/Archive 3: Difference between revisions

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seems, to me, to be an improvement.

Also, IMHO(In my hostile opinion, in this case) in the preceding paragraph, "multi-paradigm language" verges on idiot speak. It appears to pervade the programming entries on wikipedia, so I again choose not to edit the actual entry, but "Python supports (list of 4 programming styles). Extensions like|such as|whatever pyDBC and Contracts for Python provide support for Design by Contract." is a pretty good replacement for the first several sentences of that paragraph. In the python box, the paradigm: multi-paradigm is especially rich. It provides no information what-so-ever. {{<small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Maxerickson|Maxerickson}}]] ([[User talk:Maxerickson|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Maxerickson|contribs]]) </span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned -->

:I entirely disagree with all these points. The phrase exuberant is widely used in Perl circles, and about Perl, so the contrast is informative. I presume, likewise that [http://ctags.sourceforge.net/ Exuberant Ctags] also don't run joyfully in a literal sense; and yet that's the name (per common programming parlance) that the creators chose for the well-known project. For example, [[Dr. Dobb's Journal]] reviewing ''Beginning Perl'', and uses the characterization.[http://www.ddj.com/184404466]

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IMO we need a disambig. page for the animal and the programming language.

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:There already is one: [[Python (disambiguation)]] --[[User:Ozzmosis|ozzmosis]] 16:41, 19 June 2006 (UTC)