morning in Python

Dan Upton upton at virginia.edu
Fri May 16 14:54:31 EDT 2008


On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 2:12 PM, inhahe <inhahe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "George Sakkis" <george.sakkis at gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:19286799-53b1-4ba9-bb16-e3f963da7dc6 at m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
> On May 16, 11:58 am, "inhahe" <inh... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm not an expert in this but what does it mean to emphasize state? It
>> seems the opposite of that would be a) functional programming, and b)
>> passing parameters instead of using global or relatively local variables.
>> And maybe c) coroutines (generators as implemented in Python), although
>> perhaps coroutines could be said to emphasize state inasmuch as they go
>> out
>> of their way to capture, objectify and reuse it (Stackless' microthreads,
>> even moreso). And Python seems to be well-noted for implementing some
>> functional programming methodology, and as for passing parameters it's
>> just
>> as object-oriented as the rest of them.
>>
>> But as I said, I'm not an expert, so let me know if I've gone astray..
>>
>> > I have a proposition to ask you all: Python emphasizes state. Is it
>> > true?
>
> Please don't feed the bots.
>
> --
>
>
> I figured the question was interesting enough to warrant discussion whether
> it was a bot or not.  But i'm not an avid forum user, so maybe I'm wrong.
>
> Also, if it's a bot I'm floored and the man who wrote it could probably
> solve cancer and world hunger with five lines of asm.
>

Yeah... when he/she/it first appeared the replies were at least mostly
lucid, if not necessarily helpful, and spawned a few interesting
discussions.  Recently it's gone downhill... Could be some sort of bot
that was trying to learn 'speech' patterns and it overloaded its
database.  (I've seen that happen on at least one chatbot...)



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