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I'm not convinced by the argument that it's fine since most people can just use a library someone else wrote. Requiring complex code to do something simple does
by contravariant 8y ago
I'm not convinced by the argument that it's fine since most people can just use a library someone else wrote. Requiring complex code to do something simple doesn't bode well if you want to try something complex. And when judging a programming a language it's a bit weird to reason from the perspective of someone not writing the code.
- tomnj 8y agoNothing comes for free though. While we can easily write list comprehensions in Haskell or Python, their implementations are complicated. In the case of Haskell and Python, lists and comprehensions are language features, and for C++ ranges, they’re implemented as a library. Both approaches provide building blocks for users to build software and not have to roll their own implementations.
- marcosdumay 8y agoHaskell list comprehensions are a small layer of syntactic sugar over the monadic implementation, that is implemented on a library (that comes with the compiler, but it's still a library). It is entirely dependent on lazynes, first class functions and complex compiler optimizations. But there isn't much specific code for comprehensions there.