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		chriseppstein on Aug 4, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python vs Ruby, slightly more in-depth > eval()/exec() are simply evil in both languages. They make debugging more difficult. I stopped reading at this point. More complicated debugging is a reasonable tradeoff for intuitive APIs. To call them evil indicates the OP is quite inexperienced.

jamesbritt on Aug 4, 2009 | [–]

This suggests an important difference in the cultures around the language.

didip on Aug 4, 2009 | [–]

That statement comes from personal experience where some functions did not exists in the eye of text editor because they were defined inside a string.

Not that big of a deal, but enough to annoy me.

bmelton on Aug 5, 2009 | [–]

Not that big a deal != evil.

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