On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:48:01 +0200, Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks a lot for various notes. Bonono? > > I will have to look at the itertools module. Just went to the doc > http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.1/lib/module-itertools.html > looks interesting. > >> But I believe Python is designed for easy to code and read and maintain >> in mind. > >> One has to admit that without some training, FP is not very >> intuitive, my head spin when I see haskell code. A for loop is easier >> to understand. > > This i'm not sure. Of the past couple of years i increasingly developed > a theory (probably well-known among proper experts), that the > difficulty of human feats of various forms, are primarily a perception > and familiarity thing. This may be getting off topic, but i wrote an > essay expresising much of the idea using Juggling as a example: > Difficulty Perceptions in Human Feats > http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/t2/juggling.html > > likewise, i think this applies to mental feats as well. In particular, > i think that whether imperative code or functional code is easier for > the mind is almost ENTIRELY dependent on which one the person is more > familiar with, coulped with a innate attitude one may have picked up. > >> Well, if you want clean FP, you can always try haskell which is getting >> better and better in terms of real world module support(file system, >> network etc). > > oh Haskell, my love! I am really going to learn it now. (maybe i'll > start A-Java-Haskell-A-Day) This month i just learned and read about > how Perl 6 is implemented in Haskell! (because one Taiwaness hacker > single-handedly by happenstance tried to do it, as a by-product of > learning Haskell) This Pugs (Perl6 in Haskell) really brought two > rather incompatible communities together somewhat for mutual exchange. > (the learning, on the surface, is politely said to be mutual, but i'm > pretty sure it's mostly Perlers learning from the Haskell folks) > > ... there is a sentiment among the elite tech-geeking morons, early on > imbued by the concept of troll, so that they in general don't > communicate and learn from any other language except their own. > Anything cross-posted is considered as troll, and the inter-language > communication has been essentially completely cut off. Basically, the > only ones generating all the garbage posts are these troll-criers > themselves. (will have to flesh out on this particular point of > net-sociology in a essay some other day.) > > Xah > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ∑ http://xahlee.org/ > Honestly.. "your programming skills suck" John -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list