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A dictator might just have terrible ideas.

His dislike for functional constructs didn't do Python any favour, but now that he's gone I see Python is adding the kitchen sink as well. I haven't kept up with the language since that pattern matching proposal.

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People who are deeply into programming languages seem to like FP too much. That and theories of type systems. Python is doing some great things, but also just fucking around a lot.

As someone who doesn't like Python. Python's problems have almost nothing to do the lack of functional programming. It does have the worst lambda syntax of any programming language but that is about it.

> A dictator might just have terrible ideas.

If they're all terrible, then the language won't appeal to anyone and will die off naturally.

On the other hand if everyone gets to add their favorite terrible idea, there may still be enough non-terrible parts to appeal to enough people to keep momentum.

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