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.
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> "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 te
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
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 descriptio
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
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".
|
|
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.
--Sc
