I think the best way to remove compound operators would be to go back in time and hit Dennis Ritchie with a bat at the exact moment when the notion of them crosses his mind.
In all seriousness, compound operators are in practically every modern language and aren't going away. While you don't need to be a savant polyglot and build a database-analysis-webapp in every language known to man, everyone should break out of their own "language bubble" once they have the basics of programming down. Do a tutorial and make a weekend project with a couple other *disparate* languages with different paradigms (not just close relatives like Python and Ruby, or Java and C and C++). There's always something good in other perspectives and worth learning from. Except Perl. On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > David Mertz wrote: > >> The most notable example of something that is "weird" and "a stupid idea" >> is NumPy... and *everything* in the Scientific Python ecosystem thereby. >> > > Also the built-in list type. Guido clearly disagrees about > the stupidity level of this idea! > > -- > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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