Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> writes: > * 2011-05-24T06:05:35-04:00 * D'Arcy J. M. Cain wrote: > >> On Tue, 24 May 2011 09:00:14 +0300 >> "Octavian Rasnita" <orasn...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> %d = @l; >>> >>> Please tell me if Python has a syntax which is more clear than this >>> for doing this thing. >> >> How is that clear? "Shorter" != "clearer." A Python programmer looking >> at that sees line noise. > > I'm a Lisp programmer who sees (some) Python code as line noise.
Exactly, and glad to see there are also non-extremists in this group. I have been programming Perl for well over 17 years. I've been trying to switch to Python /several times/ but yet, with all its shortcomings Perl somehow still suits me better. To D'Arcy and other Pythonistas -- doesn't that sound like an extermistic organization or what -- it might look like a cat had an accident involving a keyboard but to me, and all those other people who do enjoy coding Perl it's beauty. The whole Python is so beatiful & perfect sounds to me like people who have embraced the latin alphabet calling Devanagari unreadable chicken scratches made by backwards and poor people. To me it's a writing system of beauty. > I don't know but from the point of view of a Lisp programmer Python has > the same obsession. Not trolling, I just wanted to point out that these > are just point of views. I don't actually care that much about these > things. Wise words. And I agree. To me Python vs. Perl has nothing to do with being a fanboy (unlike many other posters here). I like both languages, I have invested a lot of time in learning Python and I am really not dense. Yet, even though I can program in Python sufficient enough very often I just pick Perl. Now why is that? -- John Bokma j3b Blog: http://johnbokma.com/ Perl Consultancy: http://castleamber.com/ Perl for books: http://johnbokma.com/perl/help-in-exchange-for-books.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
