map vs. list-comprehension
Roy Smith
roy at panix.com
Thu Jun 30 21:23:09 EDT 2005
Terry Hancock <hancock at anansispaceworks.com> wrote:
> One of the strengths of Python has been that the language itself is
> small (which it shares with C and (if I understand correctly, not being
> a lisp programmer?) Lisp), but with all the syntax enhancements going
> on, Python is getting pretty complicated. I have to wonder if new users
> won't begin to find it just as intimidating as Perl or other big
> languages.
+1
Even some of the relatively recent library enhancements have been kind of
complicated. The logging module, for example, seems way over the top.
Look at what happened to C when it mutated into C++. In isolation, most of
the features of C++ seem like good ideas. Taken together, it's a huge
hairy mess that most people only understand increasingly larger subsets of.
Fred Brooks called it the second system sy
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