Xah Lee wrote: > > consider code produced by corporations, as opposed to with respect to > > some academic or philsophical logical analysis. Looked in another way, > > consider if we can compile stat of all existing pyhton code used in > > real world, you'll find the above style is rarely used.
Rhodri James wrote: > I *was* thinking of code produced in the real world, and I don't buy > your assertion. I'm not an academic, and I wouldn't hesitate to lay > down a line of code like that. As I said before, it fits into English > language idioms naturally, and as a result is pretty self-descriptive. The issue is whether the python code in the real world, by statistics, uses a style such as list comprehension as discussed in this thread. (to simplify the matter: whether code out there uses list comprehension in situations when it can, by what percentage. I claimed it is rare, being borderline esoteric. This can be interpreted as less that 10%) In partcular, the issue, is not about your opinion or joe tech geeker's personal experiences of what they have seen. In newsgroups, every joe geeker makes claims using personal experiences as if that apply for the world. I, of course also based on my claims on personal experience, however, the difference is that my claim is explicitly made in the context of applying to the world. For example, my claim is not about my experiences being such and such. My claim is about such and such is so in the real world. If, now, you claim that it is not so, then perhaps we might have something to argue about. If you can, say, as a example, have a code that crawl the web of all google's own python code at google code for example, and do some simple analysis and report what is the percentage, and if that percentage is more than what i claim, i'll find it very interesting. But if you simply have such code to do such scale of analysis, that's far more interesting by itself than our debate. Similarly, if you can find any evidence, say by some code researcher's reports, that'd be great. At this point, i recall that i have read books on such report. You might try to do research on such books and read up. > Long experience particularly in C suggests that you are entirely wrong... Try to study more. I recommend spend less time coding or tech geeking (such as reading blogs, studying languages, or studying computer science ). I recommend taking a course in community college on philosophy, logic, literature, economics. After that, your thinking in coding and all the social issues related to coding, and computing industry, will sharpen by far. Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
