On Sat, 5 Sep 2015 01:18 pm, Rustom Mody wrote: > Here's mergesort written in various languages > http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithms/Merge_sort > > You could look at the java if you like but I think C# takes the cake. > And of course also there's the python > > Now the thought experiment: > > For some reason you need to code in C# > [You need to do this part of the experiment honestly!!] > > Would you write the C# code? > Or would you write the python-ish code in C# ?
That depends. Is the example C# code idiomatic for the language? Or was it written by somebody ignorant of C#, and consequently is a poor example of badly-written and unidiomatic "Java in C#"? If the first, then I expect I would write the C# code, because it is idiomatic and works. What would you do? It is certainly true that C# appears to be a more verbose language than Python. Based on this example, it prefers to use classes with methods rather than stand-alone functions, it requires static declarations, there's a lot of boilerplate needed to get things to work. It seems to lack some nice semantic features of Python, such as list slices and the ability to treat lists/arrays as first class values, that make Python so easy to work with. If C# lacks those features, how do you expect to use them? Lacking some of those features (or at least having significant downsides to the use of them) is why idiomatic C# or Java code looks the way it does. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
