On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 05:13:35PM +1000, Andre Pang wrote: > I know this is a truism, but yes, of course you can write bad code in > any language. I personally think that the jury's still out on > whether having a large menagerie of syntax to say the same thing in a > multitude of ways (i.e. the Perl approach) or enforcing a single way > of doing things (i.e. the Python approach) is better, since the > latter can sometimes lead to less maintainable code. Perl's not a > bad language just because it has such a mass of syntax. > > As a counter-example, Python doesn't really _need_ any of the list- > processing keywords inspired from functional programming: you can > arguably do the same thing as map/reduce/filter/list comprehensions > with a loop (or vice versa), and you could take things to their > logical conclusion and declare that loops are redundant since you can > replace all loops with recursion anyway. But syntax matters, and the > more syntax that's available, the bigger the likelihood of abuse. > Enforcing one extreme and declaring it's better is a silly argument.
Words to live by. - Matt _______________________________________________ coders mailing list coders@slug.org.au http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/coders
