Python is Considered Harmful

[Ville Vainio]

mike420 at ziplip.com writes:

> I present to you the final and ultimate proof of Python's
> brain-damage:

-1, Troll.

> map(lambda f: f(1), [lambda x: x + 1 for i in range(3)])

> Guess again, it's [2, 2, 2] !

Yes, 1+1 == 2 for usual values of 1.

> Pythonista, you are all very welcome to learn Haskell.

..

> All this Python bashing is starting to feel like mocking
> a retarded child...

Well, the Haskell community seems like a friendly bunch, at least.

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Ville Vainio   http://www.students.tut.fi/~vainio24