Re: What Programming Languages Should You Learn Next?

wesley chun wrote: > http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/03/18/1633229.shtml > > it was surprising and disappointing that Python was not mentioned > *anywhere* in that article but when someone replied, it sparked a long > thread of post-discussion. What I found disappointing was how many people thought

Re: What Programming Languages Should You Learn Next?

"Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What would be amazing would be a algorithm that could rewrite the > external-arrays Haskell/Python code to the equivalent of the in-place C > code. I don't think JHC (a fancy optimizing Haskell compiler) goes quite that far, but it compiles Haskell to

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"Reedick, Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Quicksort in Haskell versus C is amazing: | http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Introduction#What.27s_good_about_functional_programming.3F Sorry, bogus comparison, and not so amazing. 1.The short doubly recursive de

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> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:python- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Donn Cave > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 3:39 PM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: Re: What Programming Languages Should You Learn Next? > > > Worth repeati

Re: What Programming Languages Should You Learn Next?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Rubin wrote: ... > I think it's easier to write complex code in Haskell because: > > 1) it has a powerful static type system that lets you express > important invariants and have them enforced at compile time. This not > only cat

Re: What Programming Languages Should You Learn Next?

On 19 Mar, 09:44, Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could you elaborate on this? (Sincere question; I have almost no > idea of Haskell.) If you already know Python, you will find Whitespace just as useful as Haskell. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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> Haven't found that killer problem so far ... for Haskell, check out HAppS. They have some great web application stuff going on. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Re Haskell: I've been spending a lot of time on Haskell recently, > > though I haven't done anything nontrivial with it yet (just some > > small stuff). But I think it's better for complex program > > development than Python is, > > Could you elabor

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Hallöchen! Paul Rubin writes: > [...] > > Re Haskell: I've been spending a lot of time on Haskell recently, > though I haven't done anything nontrivial with it yet (just some > small stuff). But I think it's better for complex program > development than Python is, Could you elaborate on this?

Re: What Programming Languages Should You Learn Next?

Hallöchen! wesley chun writes: > http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/03/18/1633229.shtml > > it was surprising and disappointing that Python was not mentioned > *anywhere* in that article but when someone replied, it sparked a > long thread of post-discussion. Well, not because I like Python so much, b

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Gerhard Häring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Probably because Ruby is all hot and sexy nowadays ;-) Though it's > remarkably close to Python, apparently. So close that I couldn't be > bothered to learn it. Ruby is apparently more Smalltalk-like and some consider it cleaner than Python. Like you,

Re: What Programming Languages Should You Learn Next?

wesley chun wrote: > http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/03/18/1633229.shtml > > it was surprising and disappointing that Python was not mentioned > *anywhere* in that article [...] Probably because Ruby is all hot and sexy nowadays ;-) Though it's remarkably close to Python, apparently. So close that

What Programming Languages Should You Learn Next?

http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/03/18/1633229.shtml it was surprising and disappointing that Python was not mentioned *anywhere* in that article but when someone replied, it sparked a long thread of post-discussion. -- wesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Core Python P