A Moronicity of Guido van Rossum

[Xah Lee]

addendum:

reduce() in fact embodies a form of iteration/recursion on lists, very
suitable in a functional language environment. If Python's lambda and
other functional facilities are more powerful, reduce() would be a good
addition. For instance, in functional programing, it is a paradigm to
nest or sequence functions. (most readers will be familiar in the form
of unix shell's “pipe”). When you sequence functions, you can't
stop in the middle and do a loop construct. So, reduce() and other
functional forms of iteration are convenient and necessary.

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Note: Guido certainly isn't a moron. But, this post of his shows his
haughtiness, and rather unfamiliarity with functional programing. (i.e.
has he, worked in a functional language in any significant length or
project?) However, he's got the audacity to assert things, probably due
to bigshot status.

Guido's stumble isn't a rare instance in the industry, and i don't take
him to be of any sinister nature. (i don't know much about Guido the
person or personality.)

There are quite a lot fucking liers and charlatans in the computing
industry, especially the OpenSourcers, from the fucking
a-dime-a-million students with their “FREE” irresponsible homeworks
on the net to fuckheads like James Gosling of Java , Larry Wall of
Perl, Linus Torvolts of Linux kernel, and that fuckhead C++ Berjo
something, the unix advocating fuckers, and those “gang of four”
Design Patterns shit and the criminals of eXtreme Programing and UML...
with these pundits begets one generation of fucking tech geeking coding
monkeys, thinking that they know something, while creating a mass of
garbage that crashes and fucks us up everyday in the computing world.

(disclaimer: this post is pure opinion.)

"The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but
as long as programming is done by people that don't master them, the
software crisis will remain with us and will be considered an incurable
disease. And you know what incurable diseases do: they invite the
quacks and charlatans in, who in this case take the form of Software
Engineering gurus." —Edsger Dijkstra 1930-2002.

 Xah
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