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Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language?

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On Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:03:13 -0300, Kragen Javier Sitaker wrote:

> However, their motivation, understandable though it is, is irrelevant to
> my point, which is that as a result of this policy, Python has, in
> practice, gone from being one of the *most* portable languages to one of
> the *least*; you can’t even reliably run a Python application you wrote
> on Ubuntu 25.10 (Python 3.13) on Ubuntu 26.04 (Python 3.14).

I seriously doubt that. They only remove legacy stuff after a long
period of deprecation.

> Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>>
>> Does anybody still want to use the “cgi” module?
>
> Yes. Although CGI was pretty costly when it went out of style in the
> 01990s, hardware has improved dramatically, and CGI can now handle
> half a billion hits per second on one server
> <https://jacob.gold/posts/serving-half-billion-requests-with-rust-cgi/>
> which is enough for all but the biggest public websites.

But it still suffers from the same old limits. No serious web
developer would want to use it (or even “higher-performance”
equivalents, like FastCGI) nowadays.

> I have three or four CGI scripts written in Python that I’ve been
> using for many years without having to maintain them.

>> Sun “au” file format?
>
> Yes, obviously?  There are plenty of audio data files from 30 years ago
> in .au format.

Leave it to purpose-built tools like FFmpeg to handle conversions on
such old formats. They’re easy enough to invoke from a Python script,
if you really need to get Python involved.

And what about the others? aifc, chunk? asynchat, asyncore? nis,
xdrlib? spwd? msilib, anybody?

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  Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-10-31 13:28 +0100
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    Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language? Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-08-27 21:11 -0300
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