Re: boring the reader to death (wasRe: Lambda: the Ultimate DesignFlaw

2005-04-06 Thread Ville Vainio
Sunnan == Sunnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sunnan languages. I'm not sure whether I'd consider python Sunnan particularly terse, though, but I don't know enough about Sunnan it yet. (I've read a Read up on list comprehensions and generator expressions. You'll see the terse side of

Re: boring the reader to death (wasRe: Lambda: the Ultimate DesignFlaw

2005-04-06 Thread Sunnan
Ville Vainio wrote: Read up on list comprehensions and generator expressions. You'll see the terse side of Python (and genexps look kinda poetic too ;-). I am familiar with lc:s/genexps, I usually program in scheme which also has them (srfi-42). They're very nice and I use them a lot. --

Re: boring the reader to death (wasRe: Lambda: the Ultimate DesignFlaw

2005-04-05 Thread Warren Postma
Donn Cave wrote: That's an odd thing to say. Poetry is verbose, florid? Python is Dutch. Ha. I'm vaguely dutch, whatever that means. I would say if there is a sister word for Programming in the english language, it isn't Poetry and it surely isn't Prose. It's Dialectic. I appreciate the idea of

Re: boring the reader to death (wasRe: Lambda: the Ultimate DesignFlaw

2005-04-03 Thread Sunnan
Scott David Daniels wrote: No, poetry is to be read slowly and carefully, appreciating the nuance at every point. You should be able to read past python, while poetry is at least as much about the form of the expression as it is about what is being expressed. Right, I agree with these

Re: boring the reader to death (wasRe: Lambda: the Ultimate DesignFlaw

2005-04-02 Thread Scott David Daniels
Sunnan wrote: ...Because what is boring? The opposite of dense, tense, intense. Utterly predictable; it's like the combination of all my prejudices. Even before I knew, I thought Bet Python separates statements from expressions. Python is for terse, pithy prose; Python is not for poetry. --Scott

Re: boring the reader to death (wasRe: Lambda: the Ultimate DesignFlaw

2005-04-02 Thread Donn Cave
Quoth Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | Sunnan wrote: | ...Because what is boring? The opposite of dense, tense, intense. Utterly | predictable; it's like the combination of all my prejudices. Even before | I knew, I thought Bet Python separates statements from expressions. | | Python

Re: boring the reader to death (wasRe: Lambda: the Ultimate DesignFlaw

2005-04-02 Thread Scott David Daniels
Donn Cave wrote: Quoth Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | Sunnan wrote: | ...Because what is boring? The opposite of dense, tense, intense. Utterly | predictable; it's like the combination of all my prejudices. Even before | I knew, I thought Bet Python separates statements from