Bill Sconce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What Eckel says now:
...
o Python is executable pseudocode. Perl is
executable line noise.
o Perl is like vice grips. You can do anything
with it, and it's the wrong tool for every job.
Just for the record, I disagree
In a message dated: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 10:52:51 EST
Benjamin Scott said:
On 8 Jan 2002, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
Just for the record, I disagree with all of this.
Can we *please* not get involved in a My language is better than yours
debate on this list? :-) At least with vi vs. Emacs, there
mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Err, why are you guys dragging your language war from 'modadlug' (what's
'modadlug'?) to GNHLUG? Please don't.
I didn't start a language war. I merely stated that I disagreed with
a controversial statement.
If I had wanted to start a language war, I
Bill:
Thanks for the follow-up (even though it did manage to trigger the
juvenile knee-jerk reaction squad into action).
I've just finished reading Eckel's Thinking In Python and look
forward to more on the subject of Python and Patterns.
who's Eckel?
sigh Guess I'll have to add that to
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, mike ledoux wrote:
Err, why are you guys dragging your language war from 'modadlug' (what's
'modadlug'?) to GNHLUG? Please don't.
I didn't start a language war. I merely stated that I disagreed with
a controversial statement.
That may be so, but you stated your
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Great, now instead of a debate over which language is best, we're having a
debate over whether or not we're having a debate over which language is
best. ;-)
Well, both languages allow recursion... (as in recursive descent into
In a message dated: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 12:19:42 EST
Ray Cote said:
who's Eckel?
sigh Guess I'll have to add that to the 'Who's Knuth?' blank
stare I get when I talk about his work.
Ahh, I know who Knuth is, just never come across the Eckel name
before.
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Seeya,
Paul
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At some point hitherto, Ray Cote hath spake thusly:
who's Eckel?
sigh Guess I'll have to add that to the 'Who's Knuth?' blank
stare I get when I talk about his work.
I haven't ever heard of Eckel either, but there are people who work
with
who's Eckel?
sigh Guess I'll have to add that to the 'Who's Knuth?' blank
stare I get when I talk about his work.
Ahh, I know who Knuth is, just never come across the Eckel name
before.
OK, I specialize in this kind of trivia. Are we talking Bruce Eckel?
ccb
This follow-up is for the folks who kindly endured
my Python evangelism at last week's monadlug meeting,
plus for anyone else who may be interested in this
area of recent developments in Python and/or design
patterns.
The features we were discussing were iterators and
generators, powerful and
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