Re: New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots After A Decade!New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots After A Decade!

2012-02-29 Thread namekuseijin
On Feb 29, 5:09 am, Xah Lee wrote: > New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots After A Decade! > > A excerpt from the new book 〈Modern Perl〉, just published, chapter 4 > on “Operators”. Quote: > > «The associativity of an operator governs whether it evaluates from > left to right or right t

Re: Google AI challenge: planet war. Lisp won.

2011-01-20 Thread namekuseijin
On Dec 22 2010, 12:46 pm, Xah Lee wrote: > On Dec 20, 10:06 pm, "Jon Harrop" wrote: > > > Wasn't that the "challenge" where they wouldn't even accept solutions > > written in many other languages (including both OCaml and F#)? > > Ocaml is one of the supported lang. See: > > http://ai-contest.com

Re: Google AI challenge: planet war. Lisp won.

2010-12-03 Thread namekuseijin
On 2 dez, 15:06, Xah Lee wrote: > discovered this rather late. > > Google has a AI Challenge: planet wars.http://ai-contest.com/index.php > > it started sometimes 2 months ago and ended first this month. > > the winner is Gábor Melis, with his code written in lisp. > > Congrats lispers! > > Gábor

Re: Scheme as a virtual machine?

2010-11-25 Thread namekuseijin
On 25 nov, 14:30, m_mom...@yahoo.com (Mario S. Mommer) wrote: > Raffael Cavallaro > writes: > > > On 2010-11-24 16:19:49 -0500, toby said: > > >> And furthermore, he has cooties. > > > Once again, not all ad hominem arguments are ad hominem > > fallacies. Financial conflict of interest is a prime

Re: Scheme as a virtual machine?

2010-11-25 Thread namekuseijin
On 25 nov, 09:23, Elena wrote: > On Oct 13, 9:09 pm, namekuseijin wrote: > > > > > > > On 11 out, 08:49, Oleg  Parashchenko wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I'd like to try the idea that Scheme can be considered as a new > > > portable

Re: Scheme as a virtual machine?

2010-11-22 Thread namekuseijin
On 22 nov, 14:47, Howard Brazee wrote: > On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:14:40 -0800 (PST), toby > > wrote: > >This is a good (if familiar) observation. Teaching children (or young > >people with little exposure to computers) how to program in various > >paradigms could produce interesting primary evidenc

Re: Land Of Lisp is out

2010-10-29 Thread namekuseijin
On 29 out, 19:06, Alessio Stalla wrote: > On 28 Ott, 10:42, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) > wrote: > > > sthueb...@googlemail.com (Stefan Hübner) writes: > > >> Would it be right to say that the only Lisp still in common use is the > > >> Elisp > > >> built into Emacs? > > > > Cl

Re: Land Of Lisp is out

2010-10-28 Thread namekuseijin
On 27 out, 21:55, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > Would it be right to say that the only Lisp still in common use is the Elisp > built into Emacs? Perhaps you should ask Google's Peter Norvig... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Land Of Lisp is out

2010-10-28 Thread namekuseijin
On 28 out, 07:02, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) wrote: > Alain Ketterlin writes: > > Lawrence D'Oliveiro writes: > > Would it be right to say that the only Lisp still in common use is the > Elisp built into Emacs? > > >>> There is a new version of Lisp called Clojure th

Re: Land Of Lisp is out

2010-10-28 Thread namekuseijin
On 28 out, 06:46, Xah Lee wrote: > lol. He said REAL! > > how about the 10 Scheme Lisps on JVM? guess they are UNREAL. lol you know only CL is the real lisp and schmers are just zanny time- travelling folks as the webcomic depict. :p > btw, who cross posted this thread to python? i call troll!

Re: Land Of Lisp is out

2010-10-27 Thread namekuseijin
On 27 out, 09:46, Xah Lee wrote: > The Land Of Lisp is out! > > http://landoflisp.com/ > > Very well done site. > > spread the news, team lisp! > >  Xah haha, I've read some of the comics before. It's truly remarkably funny, no matter the language of your choice... going well down the rabbit ho

Re: Scheme as a virtual machine?

2010-10-14 Thread namekuseijin
On 14 out, 00:26, Ertugrul Söylemez wrote: > BTW, you mentioned symbols ('$', '.' and '>>='), which are not syntactic > sugar at all.  They are just normal functions, for which it makes sense > to be infix.  The fact that you sold them as syntactic sugar or > "perlisms" proves that you have no ide

Re: Scheme as a virtual machine?

2010-10-13 Thread namekuseijin
On 13 out, 19:41, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) wrote: > namekuseijin writes: > > On 11 out, 08:49, Oleg  Parashchenko wrote: > >> Hello, > > >> I'd like to try the idea that Scheme can be considered as a new > >> portable assembler

Re: Scheme as a virtual machine?

2010-10-13 Thread namekuseijin
On 13 out, 21:01, Ertugrul Söylemez wrote: > What exactly is "friggin' huge" and "complex" about Haskell, and what's > this stuff about a "very own monolithic gcc"?  Haskell isn't a lot more > complex than Scheme.  In fact, Python is much more complex.  Reduced to > bare metal (i.e. leaving out sy

Re: Scheme as a virtual machine?

2010-10-13 Thread namekuseijin
On 11 out, 08:49, Oleg Parashchenko wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to try the idea that Scheme can be considered as a new > portable assembler. We could code something in Scheme and then compile > it to PHP or Python or Java or whatever. > > Any suggestions and pointers to existing and related work

Re: toy list processing problem: collect similar terms

2010-09-30 Thread namekuseijin
On 30 set, 09:35, namekuseijin wrote: > On 29 set, 11:04, w_a_x_man wrote: > > > > > On Sep 26, 9:24 am, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) > > wrote: > > > > Xah Lee writes: > > > > here's a interesting toy list processing

Re: toy list processing problem: collect similar terms

2010-09-30 Thread namekuseijin
On 29 set, 11:04, w_a_x_man wrote: > On Sep 26, 9:24 am, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) > wrote: > > > > > Xah Lee writes: > > > here's a interesting toy list processing problem. > > > > I have a list of lists, where each sublist is labelled by > > > a number. I need to collect to

Re: (and scheme lisp) x Python and modern langs [was Re: gossip, Guy Steel, Lojban, Racket]

2010-09-29 Thread namekuseijin
On 29 set, 17:46, Xah Lee wrote: > On Sep 29, 11:02 am, namekuseijin wrote: > > > On 28 set, 19:38, Xah Lee wrote: > > > > • “list comprehension” is a very bad jargon; thus harmful to > > > functional programing or programing in general. Being a bad jargon, it

Re: (and scheme lisp) x Python and modern langs [was Re: gossip, Guy Steel, Lojban, Racket]

2010-09-29 Thread namekuseijin
On 28 set, 19:38, Xah Lee wrote: > • “list comprehension” is a very bad jargon; thus harmful to > functional programing or programing in general. Being a bad jargon, it > encourage mis-communication, mis-understanding. I disagree: it is a quite intuitive term to describe what the expression does

Re: (and scheme lisp) x Python and modern langs [was Re: gossip, Guy Steel, Lojban, Racket]

2010-09-27 Thread namekuseijin
On 27 set, 18:39, Xah Lee wrote: > On Sep 27, 12:11 pm, namekuseijin wrote: > > > On 27 set, 16:06, Xah Lee wrote:> 2010-09-27 > > > > > For instance, this is far more convenient: > > > > [x+1 for x in [1,2,3,4,5] if x%2==0] > > > > than

Re: (and scheme lisp) x Python and modern langs [was Re: gossip, Guy Steel, Lojban, Racket]

2010-09-27 Thread namekuseijin
On 27 set, 16:06, Xah Lee wrote: > 2010-09-27 > > > For instance, this is far more convenient: > > [x+1 for x in [1,2,3,4,5] if x%2==0] > > than this: > > map(lambda x:x+1,filter(lambda x:x%2==0,[1,2,3,4,5])) > > How about this: [snip] how about this: read before replying. -- http://mail.python

Re: "Strong typing vs. strong testing"

2010-09-27 Thread namekuseijin
On 27 set, 05:46, TheFlyingDutchman wrote: > On Sep 27, 12:58 am, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) > wrote: > > RG writes: > > > In article > > > <7df0eb06-9be1-4c9c-8057-e9fdb7f0b...@q16g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, > > >  TheFlyingDutchman wrote: > > > >> On Sep 22, 10:26 pm, "Scot

Re: reddit = porn fodder

2010-09-13 Thread namekuseijin
Xah Lee escreveu: reddit = porn fodder Didn't realize, but Reddit is now a porn fodder. http://www.reddit.com/r/LegalTeens/ http://www.reddit.com/r/highheels http://www.reddit.com/r/gonewild/ Its traffic also seems to incleased 10 times since 2008. See: Computer Language Websites Popularity.

Python shared lib

2009-09-27 Thread namekuseijin
So, I was trying to get the yafaray raytracer to work with the 3D package Blender, but it asks for python2.6 and all I got is a 2.5. Actually, quite a lot of other related Blender packages are also migrating to 2.6, so a compilation was inevitable. Then I go: ./configure --prefix=~/ && make &&

Re: Programming Praxis

2009-05-29 Thread namekuseijin
Phil Bewig escreveu: Please visit my blog, Programming Praxis, which presents a collection of programming etudes. Newbies will find exercises that extend their programming abilities. Savvy programmers can use the exercises to sharpen their skills or learn a new language. Brave programmers can

Re: Performance java vs. python

2009-05-21 Thread namekuseijin
On May 21, 7:47 am, s...@viridian.paintbox (Sion Arrowsmith) wrote: > Duncan Booth   wrote: > > >namekuseijin wrote: > >> I find it completely unimaginable that people would even think > >> suggesting the idea that Java is simpler.  It's one of the most stupidl

Re: Performance java vs. python

2009-05-20 Thread namekuseijin
Ant escreveu: # Python fh = open("myfile.txt") for line in fh: print line // Java ... BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader ("myfile.txt")); String line = reader.readLine(); while (line != null) { System.out.println(line); } ... And that's without all of the clas

Re: Performance java vs. python

2009-05-20 Thread namekuseijin
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:21 PM, David Stanek wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 5:43 PM, namekuseijin wrote: >> someone said: >>>>>> >>>>>> If you took a look at Java, you would >>>>>> notice that the core language syntax is much sim

Re: Performance java vs. python

2009-05-19 Thread namekuseijin
someone said: If you took a look at Java, you would notice that the core language syntax is much simpler than Python's. thanks for the laughs whoever you are! -- a game sig: http://tinyurl.com/d3rxz9 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Nimrod programming language

2009-05-12 Thread namekuseijin
On May 8, 12:48 pm, Andreas Rumpf wrote: > Dear Python-users, > > I invented a new programming language called "Nimrod" that combines Python's > readability with C's performance. Please check it out:http://force7.de/nimrod/ > Any feedback is appreciated. heh, looks more like a streamlined Object

Re: how to consume .NET webservice

2009-05-12 Thread namekuseijin
On May 12, 4:12 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" wrote: > namekuseijin schrieb: >  > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >  >> namekuseijin schrieb: >  >>> bav escreveu: >  >>>> question from a python newbie; >  >>>> >  >>>>   how c

Re: how to consume .NET webservice

2009-05-11 Thread namekuseijin
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: namekuseijin schrieb: bav escreveu: question from a python newbie; how can i consume in python language, a .NET web service, passing a string array as parameter in some easy steps? Unless Microsoft extended the standard in any way, then it should be just as you

Re: how to consume .NET webservice

2009-05-11 Thread namekuseijin
bav escreveu: question from a python newbie; how can i consume in python language, a .NET web service, passing a string array as parameter in some easy steps? Unless Microsoft extended the standard in any way, then it should be just as you consume any web service, I guess. ;) -- a game

Re: I'm intrigued that Python has some functional constructions in the language.

2009-05-11 Thread namekuseijin
On May 10, 7:18 pm, Carl Banks wrote: > On May 10, 12:40 pm, namekuseijin > wrote: > theoretical argument like, "everything reduces to a function so it > doesn't matter what syntax you use," yet people in the real world are > out there trying to find alternative

Re: I'm intrigued that Python has some functional constructions in the language.

2009-05-10 Thread namekuseijin
Carl Banks wrote: On May 9, 10:57 am, namekuseijin wrote: Carl Banks wrote: On May 8, 7:19 pm, namekuseijin wrote: On May 8, 10:13 pm, Carl Banks wrote: In Haskell, Lisp and other functional programming languages, any extra syntax gets converted into the core lambda constructs. So? The

Re: I'm intrigued that Python has some functional constructions in the language.

2009-05-09 Thread namekuseijin
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sat, 09 May 2009 14:57:24 -0300, namekuseijin wrote: I'm saying syntax is nothing special. They are user-defined, as functions. And it all gets converted into functions. Functions matter, syntax is irrelevant because you can do away with it. How d

Re: I'm intrigued that Python has some functional constructions in the language.

2009-05-09 Thread namekuseijin
Carl Banks wrote: On May 8, 7:19 pm, namekuseijin wrote: On May 8, 10:13 pm, Carl Banks wrote: In Haskell, Lisp and other functional programming languages, any extra syntax gets converted into the core lambda constructs. So? The user still uses that syntax, so how can you claim it doesn&#

Re: I'm intrigued that Python has some functional constructions in the language.

2009-05-09 Thread namekuseijin
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: In message <692b7ae8-0c5b-498a- a012-51bda980f...@s28g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>, namekuseijin wrote: On May 8, 6:48 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: In message , namekuseijin wrote: Carl Banks escreveu: 2. However, functional programming is crypt

Re: Simple programme - Just want to know whether this is correct way of coding

2009-05-08 Thread namekuseijin
On May 8, 3:37 am, guptha wrote: > The code Works fine ,but I doubt about the performance issue ,My > intention is to send mails concurrently to large number of mail. > 1.For every mail id i send It creates a new SMTP object,in case, if i > send to 1000 or more ids why should I help a spammer...

Re: I'm intrigued that Python has some functional constructions in the language.

2009-05-08 Thread namekuseijin
On May 8, 10:13 pm, Carl Banks wrote: > On May 8, 5:47 pm, namekuseijin wrote: > > > My point is that when all you do is call functions, syntax is > > irrelevant.  You call functions pretty much in the same way regardless > > of language:  functionname, opt

Re: I'm intrigued that Python has some functional constructions in the language.

2009-05-08 Thread namekuseijin
On May 8, 7:22 pm, Carl Banks wrote: > On May 8, 1:56 pm, namekuseijin wrote: > > Carl Banks escreveu: > > > 2. However, functional programming is cryptic at some level no matter > > > how nice you make the syntax. > > > When your program is nothing

Re: I'm intrigued that Python has some functional constructions in the language.

2009-05-08 Thread namekuseijin
On May 8, 6:48 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message , namekuseijin wrote: > > > Carl Banks escreveu: > > >> 2. However, functional programming is cryptic at some level no matter > >> how nice you make the syntax. > > > When your program

Re: I'm intrigued that Python has some functional constructions in the language.

2009-05-08 Thread namekuseijin
Carl Banks escreveu: 2. However, functional programming is cryptic at some level no matter how nice you make the syntax. When your program is nothing but function definition and function application, syntax is meaningless. It's kinda like scripting, say, Microsoft Word in either Visual Basic

Re: I'm intrigued that Python has some functional constructions in the language.

2009-05-08 Thread namekuseijin
prueba...@latinmail.com escreveu: Don't forget that the Python interpreter is simple. It makes maintenance easier and allows embedding it into other programs. Good optimizing compilers for functional languages are not simple. Good optimizing compilers are not simple, period. The python interpr

Re: yet another list comprehension question

2009-05-05 Thread namekuseijin
2009/5/5 Ricardo Aráoz : > This seems to work for any length tuples : > a = [(1,2), (3,4, 'goes'), (5,None), (6,7, 8, 'as', None), (8, None), (9, 0)] [tup for tup in a if not [e for e in tup if e == None]] > [(1, 2), (3, 4, 'goes'), (9, 0)] Why that extra "for"? KISS >>> a = [(1,2

Re: yet another list comprehension question

2009-05-04 Thread namekuseijin
On May 4, 9:15 am, David Robinow wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:33 AM, namekuseijin > > wrote: > >>>> ls = [(1,2), (3,4), (5, None), (6,7), (8, None)] > >>>> [(x,y) for (x,y) in ls if y] > > [(1, 2), (3, 4), (6, 7)] > > Nope. That filte

Re: yet another list comprehension question

2009-05-03 Thread namekuseijin
>>> ls = [(1,2), (3,4), (5, None), (6,7), (8, None)] >>> [(x,y) for (x,y) in ls if y] [(1, 2), (3, 4), (6, 7)] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Strange interaction between timeit and recursion

2009-05-03 Thread namekuseijin
Recursion is unpythonic. Do not use it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Using Help inside Python

2009-05-03 Thread namekuseijin
I'm from the time when I inspected python objects themselves, say: print obj.__doc__ or dir( obj ) to know the goodies... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Lisp mentality vs. Python mentality

2009-04-28 Thread namekuseijin
Dan Sommers escreveu: Yes, I agree: Python and Lisp are extremely dynamic languages. I *can* redefine map, reduce, +, and other operators and functions, but I know better. When is the last time you examined someone else's code, and asked them what their "map" function did (in Lisp or in Pyth

Re: Lisp mentality vs. Python mentality

2009-04-27 Thread namekuseijin
Dan Sommers wrote: On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:57:00 +0300, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote: I agree with your opinion about keeping the abstraction layers shallow, but in my view high-order and helper functions do not comprise a new abstraction layer. For example in Lisp, using map, reduce (fold),

Re: Lisp mentality vs. Python mentality

2009-04-26 Thread namekuseijin
Travis wrote: I've noticed that every one of you is wrong about programming. Since I can't say it effectively, here's someone who can: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHosLhPEN3k That's the answer. Hmm, perhaps it was the answer by the time that song was written? ;) cool anyway... :) -- http:/

Re: Lisp mentality vs. Python mentality

2009-04-26 Thread namekuseijin
Paul Rubin wrote: namekuseijin writes: return (len(a) == len(b)) and not any(not comp(*t) for t in (zip(a, b))) plus the zip call enclosed in parentheses got turned into an iterator. zip in python 2.x always makes a list. You want itertools.izip. You could also use itertools.starmap

Re: python list handling and Lisp list handling

2009-04-25 Thread namekuseijin
On Apr 26, 1:31 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:01:10 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: > > That's because Python lists aren't lists. > > Surely you meant to say that Lisp lists aren't lists? > > It-all-depends-on-how-you-define-lists-ly y'rs, Yeah, the List Processing language got it

Re: python list handling and Lisp list handling

2009-04-25 Thread namekuseijin
On Apr 25, 4:34 am, Michele Simionato wrote: > which has some feature you may like. For instance, > there is a weak form of pattern matching built-in: > > >>> head, *tail = [1,2,3] # Python 3.0 only! > >>> head > 1 > >>> tail > > [2, 3] Good seeing yet another long time Perl feature finally broug

Re: Lisp mentality vs. Python mentality

2009-04-25 Thread namekuseijin
Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: I liked very much your implementation for the compare function, it is very short and at the same time readable: def compare(a, b, comp=operator.eq): return (len(a) == len(b)) and all(comp(*t) for t in

Re: Lisp mentality vs. Python mentality

2009-04-25 Thread namekuseijin
Paul Rubin wrote: Python tries to be simple and pragmatic while not aiming for as heavy-duty applications as Common Lisp. Scheme is more of a research language that's way past its prime. If you like Scheme, you should try Haskell. Python has the motto "practicality beats purity". With Haskell,

Re: Lisp mentality vs. Python mentality

2009-04-25 Thread namekuseijin
That was amusing, but that's not a question of Lisp vs Python programmers, just one of fun vs practicality. Mark Tarver is the implementor of Qi, a higher order Lisp of sorts. He's writing a compiler from Qi to Python and was learning Python along the way. He's having fun with it, not writin

Re: Lisp mentality vs. Python mentality

2009-04-25 Thread namekuseijin
Paul Rubin wrote: Carl Banks writes: Python programmer: a == b. Next question. in lisp you'd use (equal a b) I see you walk both sides. :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Weird lambda behavior (bad for)

2009-04-25 Thread namekuseijin
The real issue here has nothing to do with closures, lexical capture or anything like that. It's a long known issue called side-effects. Trying to program in a functional style in the presence of side-effects is bad. *for* is the main perpetrator of side-effects here, because it updates its

Re: Is there any way to find out the definition of a function in a file of C language?

2009-04-16 Thread namekuseijin
Jebel escreveu: Hi ,everyone. I have the name of a function of C language, and have the source file which the function is defined in. And I want to find out the type and name of the parameters. If I need to analyze the file by myself, or have some way to do it more easily? ever heard of grep?

Re: Best way to start

2009-04-06 Thread namekuseijin
Google's automatic chat logging is nice too. My first online python tutorial for someone who never saw it before (sorry for not being in english): 14/09/08 00:50 KALEL: I'm on Phyton Shell 00:52 me: cool let's go type it: 2 just to get rid of your fears... :) KALEL: Hah hah hah hah me:

Re: Best way to start

2009-04-06 Thread namekuseijin
Avi escreveu: A BIG Thanks to Chris and Andrew for suggestions. This is an awesome place. namekuseijin: haha...got a friend hooked to Python on chat? hilarious! True story. But he was already a programmer. Only Pascal Delphi though. -- a game sig: http://tinyurl.com/d3rxz9 -- http

Re: Best way to start

2009-04-06 Thread namekuseijin
I was able to get a friend into Python over a Google Chat. I pointed him to the downloads page, waited for him to install, then covered the basics in quite a few steps (syntax, conditionals, loops, function definition and application, classes and methods, lists, dicts and comprehensions). He

Re: Commercial Products in Python

2008-10-21 Thread namekuseijin
On 21 out, 15:59, "Sebastian Bassi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Paulo J. Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was just wondering, if you wish to commercialize an application > > developed in Python, what's the way to go? > > You choose the conditions. Nothing i

Re: What is not objects in Python?

2008-09-29 Thread namekuseijin
On 28 set, 15:29, process <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have heard some criticism about Python, that it is not fully object- > oriented. So what? > Why isn't len implemented as a str.len and list.len method instead of > a len(list) function? Because postfix notation sucks. The natural way of s

Re: PYTHON WORKING WITH PERL ??

2008-09-29 Thread namekuseijin
On 29 set, 14:16, "Blubaugh, David A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To All, > > I was wondering if it was possible to have a situation where a > programming project would utilized BOTH python and perl?  Such as > utilizing python for internet programming and then utilize perl for text > processing

Re: python syntax for conditional is unfortunate

2008-09-23 Thread namekuseijin
On 23 set, 22:50, Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I find I'm often tripped up by: > > x = Y (lots of  constructor arguments) if something ... > > on first glance, I don't notice the if. Nobody does. This peculiar syntax has much better usage in short expressions. dothis if this else

Re: python syntax for conditional is unfortunate

2008-09-23 Thread namekuseijin
On 23 set, 20:52, Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In hindsight, I am disappointed with the choice of conditional syntax.  I > know it's too late to change.  The problem is > > y = some thing or other if x else something_else > > When scanning this my eye tends to see the first phrase and

Re: Python is slow?

2008-09-23 Thread namekuseijin
On Sep 23, 10:57 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AFAICT, _everybody_ is bad at programming C++. Thankfully, at least Numpy developers are not bad at C programming. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Linq to Python

2008-09-23 Thread namekuseijin
On Sep 23, 2:07 pm, Jason Scheirer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 23, 7:48 am, hrishy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi > > > Will LINQ be ported to Python ? > > > regards > > Hrishy > > I think this question is more appropriate to ask on an IronPython > development list -- LINQ is pretty so