“As much as I’d love our code to be fully compliant with the great programming practices of this world, I’d rather have it working — if possible before the heat death of the Universe.”
No need to be that categorical in your judgement, your '' + 2 code sample has always been outdated, as String(2) or (2).toString() have been allowed since the 1997 standard (source).
It’s possible to do awful code in a lot of languages, Python included, finding the worst in a tech is not a proof of it “sucking” ;)
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No need to be that categorical in your judgement, your
'' + 2
code sample has always been outdated, asString(2)
or(2).toString()
have been allowed since the 1997 standard (source).It’s possible to do awful code in a lot of languages, Python included, finding the worst in a tech is not a proof of it “sucking” ;)