Re: Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer

On 31.03.2016 18:30, Travis Griggs wrote: British: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/python American: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/python?s=t That does it. If I ever make some sort of open source module for pythun/pythawn I’ll be sure to call it either

Re: Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Travis Griggs wrote: > >> On Mar 30, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Gregory Ewing >> wrote: >> >> Tim Golden wrote: >> >>> (I don't know how other English-speaking groups say the word, but in >>> England the first

Re: Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer

> On Mar 30, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Gregory Ewing > wrote: > > Tim Golden wrote: > >> (I don't know how other English-speaking groups say the word, but in >> England the first syllable is stressed and the second is the >> conventional short "uh" sound). > > I can

Re: Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer

Tim Golden wrote: (I don't know how other English-speaking groups say the word, but in England the first syllable is stressed and the second is the conventional short "uh" sound). I can attest that New Zealand follows the UK on this. I was surprised when I first heard an American pronounce it

Re: Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer

On 3/30/2016 9:09 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:06 AM, Eric S. Johansson wrote: I need a co-conspirator with better hands than mine to get through the next stage which is some form of an AST smart editor that operates on larger chunks such as idioms or

Re: Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:06 AM, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > I need a co-conspirator with better hands than mine to get through the next > stage which is some form of an AST smart editor that operates on larger > chunks such as idioms or snippets in a speech friendly way. Ideally

Re: Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer

On 3/30/2016 6:21 AM, BartC wrote: On 30/03/2016 11:07, Sven R. Kunze wrote: On 30.03.2016 01:29, Eric S. Johansson wrote: On 3/29/2016 6:05 AM, Sven R. Kunze wrote: Python = English As someone who writes English text and code using speech recognition, I can assure you that Python is

Re: Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer

On 30.03.2016 12:21, BartC wrote: On 30/03/2016 11:07, Sven R. Kunze wrote: On 30.03.2016 01:29, Eric S. Johansson wrote: On 3/29/2016 6:05 AM, Sven R. Kunze wrote: Python = English As someone who writes English text and code using speech recognition, I can assure you that Python is not

Re: Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer

On 30/03/2016 11:07, Sven R. Kunze wrote: On 30.03.2016 01:29, Eric S. Johansson wrote: On 3/29/2016 6:05 AM, Sven R. Kunze wrote: Python = English As someone who writes English text and code using speech recognition, I can assure you that Python is not English. :-) :D Interesting.

Re: Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer

On 30.03.2016 12:14, Tim Golden wrote: Not that you quite meant this, but I'm always amused (and still a little startled) when I listen to talks recorded from, say, PyCon and hear people with American accents pronouncing Python with the stress on the slightly longer second syllable. (I don't

Re: Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer

On 30/03/2016 11:07, Sven R. Kunze wrote: > On 30.03.2016 01:29, Eric S. Johansson wrote: >> >> >> On 3/29/2016 6:05 AM, Sven R. Kunze wrote: >>> >>> Python = English >>> >> As someone who writes English text and code using speech recognition, >> I can assure you that Python is not English. :-) >

Re: Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer

On 30.03.2016 01:29, Eric S. Johansson wrote: On 3/29/2016 6:05 AM, Sven R. Kunze wrote: Python = English As someone who writes English text and code using speech recognition, I can assure you that Python is not English. :-) :D Interesting. Never thought of how Python sounds when spoken.

Re: Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer

On 3/29/2016 6:05 AM, Sven R. Kunze wrote: Python = English As someone who writes English text and code using speech recognition, I can assure you that Python is not English. :-) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [OT] C# -- sharp or carp? was Re: Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer

Sven R. Kunze wrote: >>> My question to those who know a bit of C#: what is the state-of-the-art >>> equivalent to >>> >>> "\n".join(foo.description() for foo in mylist >>> if foo.description() != "") > Friend of mine told me something like this: > > String.Join("\n",

Re: [OT] C# -- sharp or carp? was Re: Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer

On 29.03.2016 18:05, Peter Otten wrote: Reformatting it a bit String.Join( "\n", mylist.Where( foo => !String.IsNullOrEmpty(foo.description) ).Select( foo => foo.description)) this looks like a variant of Python's str.join( "\n", map(lambda foo:

Re: [OT] C# -- sharp or carp? was Re: Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer

Sven R. Kunze wrote: > On 29.03.2016 12:18, Sven R. Kunze wrote: >> On 29.03.2016 11:39, Peter Otten wrote: >>> My question to those who know a bit of C#: what is the state-of-the-art >>> equivalent to >>> >>> "\n".join(foo.description() for foo in mylist >>> if

Re: [OT] C# -- sharp or carp? was Re: Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer

On 29.03.2016 12:18, Sven R. Kunze wrote: On 29.03.2016 11:39, Peter Otten wrote: My question to those who know a bit of C#: what is the state-of-the-art equivalent to "\n".join(foo.description() for foo in mylist if foo.description() != "") Using LINQ, I suppose:

Re: [OT] C# -- sharp or carp? was Re: Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer

On 29.03.2016 11:39, Peter Otten wrote: My question to those who know a bit of C#: what is the state-of-the-art equivalent to "\n".join(foo.description() for foo in mylist if foo.description() != "") Using LINQ, I suppose:

Re: Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer

On 29.03.2016 06:13, Michael Torrie wrote: On 03/28/2016 06:44 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: http://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/why-learning-haskell-python-makes-you-a-worse-programmer/ I have the same problem as the writer. Working in Python makes me really dislike working in any other

[OT] C# -- sharp or carp? was Re: Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer

Steven D'Aprano wrote: > http://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/why-learning-haskell-python-makes-you-a-worse-programmer/ I was about to post that in a few years' time C# will acquire enough features to make code that follows the functional paradigm feasible in that language. Then I no

Re: Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer

On 03/28/2016 06:44 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > http://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/why-learning-haskell-python-makes-you-a-worse-programmer/ I have the same problem as the writer. Working in Python makes me really dislike working in any other language! -- https://mail.python.org/mail

Re: Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer

On 03/28/2016 05:44 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: http://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/why-learning-haskell-python-makes-you-a-worse-programmer/ Beautiful. And my deepest sympathies for the OP. -- ~Ethan~ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer

http://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/why-learning-haskell-python-makes-you-a-worse-programmer/ -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list