Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint

Pettersen, Bjorn S BjornPettersen at fairisaac.com
Mon Oct 20 07:59:09 EDT 2003


> From: mike420 at ziplip.com [mailto:mike420 at ziplip.com] 
> 
[..]
> 
> Now look at some more realistic code
> 
> sin(x) + 2 / atan z
> 
> sin x + 2 / atan z

Here: (), you seem to be missing a couple <wink>.

> the latter is exactly how you would write this in math.

.. but I'm not a matematician..?

[..]
> But to be _wise_ like me, it's not enough to grow a beard or 
> know Lisp or Haskell. You have to know *both*, because they are 
> so different, you have to grok monads and master macros.

Hmm.. you're missing a number of categories... of the ones I've
programmed in I would recommend Id, Cecil, BETA, Prolog, and Snobol
(probably in that order..)

-- bjorn





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