How do you feel ?
Howard Stearns
howard.stearns at charter.net
Fri Aug 6 20:18:57 EDT 2004
I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Lisp programmer by history, but not for pay these
days. I'm trying Python for a nights-and-weekends project. And every time
I use it, I tell my wife (a technically savy non-programmer) that "hey,
this Python stuff really isn't bad. It's.... well..., pretty good."
Of course, the first thing I did was re-implement generic functions. But
other than that, I'm must using the libraries. They're good. I'm having
fun again!
The one thing I've found annoying is that I haven't yet discovered how to
do whatever I want in lambda expressions. I have top-level assignments
where I'd like create a function to use as the the value being assigned. I
don't know how to define a named function in a top-level assignment, and a
lambda won't allow me to use 'try' and other statements -- just
expressions. Or am I looking at things wrong?
Sylvain Hellegouarch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A bit off topic.
>
> I just wondered what was your feeling when you were coding with Python.
> I have beebn coding with different languages and the only that has given
> me the will to invent or to be creative has been Python. Python allows
> me not to focus on the complexity of the language itself.
>
> Of course, from time to time, I find something that is not clear to me
> but indeed after a couple of research you find the information you were
> looking for.
>
> I love that language and above all, I love using it.
>
> Sorry for this little spam but it is always good to acknowledge good
> things and not only complaining when it doesn't work.
>
> Thanks the Python team.
> - Sylvain
>
>
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